Exodus 5:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:36 : 36 The LORD will judge his people, and will change his plans concerning his servants; when he sees that their power has disappeared, and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 Evil Oppression on Earth So I again considered all the oppression that continually occurs on earth. This is what I saw: The oppressed were in tears, but no one was comforting them; no one delivers them from the power of their oppressors.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 Government Corruption If you see the extortion of the poor, or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. For the high official is watched by a higher official, and there are higher ones over them!

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  • Exod 5:4-18
    15 verses
    86%

    4The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”

    5Pharaoh was thinking,“The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

    6That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:

    7“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.

    8But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying,‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’

    9Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”

    10So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said,“Thus says Pharaoh:‘I am not giving you straw.

    11You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

    12So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

    13The slave masters were pressuring them, saying,“Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

    14The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked,“Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past– both yesterday and today?”

    15The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?

    16No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”

    17But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’”

    18So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”

  • Exod 5:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,

    21and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

  • Exod 1:11-14
    4 verses
    75%

    11So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

    12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,

    13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

    14They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

  • Exod 6:9
    71%

    9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

  • Exod 14:5
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    5When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,“What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!”

  • Deut 26:6
    70%

    6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.