Exodus 5:19

World English Bible (2000)

The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:36 : 36 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

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    4 The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"

    5 Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens."

    6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

    7 "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

    8 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

    9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."

    10 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you straw.

    11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'"

    12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

    13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"

    14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

    15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?

    16 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

    17 But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.'

    18 Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"

  • Exod 5:20-21
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    20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:

    21 and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

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    11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

    12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

    13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

    14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

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    9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

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    5 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

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    6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage: