Exodus 5:8

World English Bible (2000)

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.'

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  • Ps 106:41 : 41 He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.

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  • Exod 5:9-19
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    86%

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

    10The 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.

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

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

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

    14The 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?"

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

    16No 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."

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

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

    19The 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!"

  • Exod 5:4-7
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    4The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"

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

    6The 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.

  • Gen 11:3
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    3They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

  • Exod 36:5-6
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    70%

    5They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make."

    6Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

  • Exod 1:13-14
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    13The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

    14and 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.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5-6
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    5Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the breaches of the house,

    6to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

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    8and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

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

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    8in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

  • Neh 4:5
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    5don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."

  • Hab 2:13
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    13Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

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    28There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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    41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

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    8Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses be given with all diligence to these men, that they be not hindered.

  • Jer 25:6
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    6and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.

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    10Judah said, "The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall."

  • 1 Chr 22:15
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    15There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work:

  • Jer 7:18
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    18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

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    2For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

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    8Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.

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    5Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.