Exodus 5:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But 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.’

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  • Ps 106:41 : 41 He handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

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  • Exod 5:9-19
    11 verses
    86%

    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!”

    19The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”

  • Exod 5:4-7
    4 verses
    84%

    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.

  • Gen 11:3
    71%

    3Then they said to one another,“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”(They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

  • Exod 36:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5and told Moses,“The people are bringing much more than is needed for the completion of the work which the LORD commanded us to do!”

    6Moses instructed them to take his message throughout the camp, saying,“Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing any more.

  • Isa 2:8
    69%

    8Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

  • Exod 1:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5-6
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    5Have them hand it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it,

    6including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.

  • Amos 2:8
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    8They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!

  • Exod 1:11
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    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.

  • Jer 44:8
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    8That is what will result from your making me angry by what you are doing. You are making me angry by sacrificing to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you live. You will be destroyed for doing that! You will become an example used in curses and an object of ridicule among all the nations of the earth.

  • Neh 4:5
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    5Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from your sight. For they have bitterly offended the builders!

  • Hab 2:13
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    13Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

  • Deut 4:28
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    28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

  • Acts 7:41
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    41At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

  • Ezra 6:8
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    8“I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work.

  • Jer 25:6
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    6Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’

  • Num 29:35
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    35“‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

  • Neh 4:10
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    10Then those in Judah said,“The strength of the laborers has failed! The debris is so great that we are unable to rebuild the wall.”

  • 1 Chr 22:15
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    15You also have available many workers, including stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and an innumerable array of workers who are skilled

  • Jer 7:18
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    18Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just to trouble me.

  • Exod 9:2
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    2For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them,

  • Ezra 5:8
    67%

    8Let it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the temple of the great God. It is being built with large stones, and timbers are being placed in the walls. This work is being done with all diligence and is prospering in their hands.

  • Ps 28:5
    67%

    5For they do not understand the LORD’s actions, or the way he carries out justice. The LORD will permanently demolish them.