Exodus 5:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Straw is not given to thy servants, and they are saying to us, Make bricks, and lo, thy servants are smitten -- and thy people hath sinned.'

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  • Exod 5:4-15
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    4And the king of Egypt saith unto them, `Why, Moses and Aaron, do ye free the people from its works? go to your burdens.'

    5Pharaoh also saith, `Lo, numerous now `is' the people of the land, and ye have caused them to cease from their burdens!'

    6And Pharaoh commandeth, on that day, the exactors among the people and its authorities, saying,

    7`Ye do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks, as heretofore -- they go and have gathered straw for themselves;

    8and the proper quantity of the bricks which they are making heretofore ye do put on them, ye do not diminish from it, for they are remiss, therefore they are crying, saying, Let us go, let us sacrifice to our God;

    9let the service be heavy on the men, and let them work at it, and not be dazzled by lying words.'

    10And the exactors of the people, and its authorities, go out, and speak unto the people, saying, `Thus said Pharaoh, I do not give you straw,

    11ye -- go ye, take for yourselves straw where ye find `it', for there is nothing of your service diminished.'

    12And the people is scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw,

    13and the exactors are making haste, saying, `Complete your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there is straw.'

    14And the authorities of the sons of Israel, whom the exactors of Pharaoh have placed over them, are beaten, saying, `Wherefore have ye not completed your portion in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and to-day?'

    15And the authorities of the sons of Israel come in and cry unto Pharaoh, saying, `Why dost thou thus to thy servants?

  • Exod 5:17-21
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    17And he saith, `Remiss -- ye are remiss, therefore ye are saying, Let us go, let us sacrifice to Jehovah;

    18and now, go, serve; and straw is not given to you, and the measure of bricks ye do give.'

    19And the authorities of the sons of Israel see them in affliction, saying, `Ye do not diminish from your bricks; the matter of a day in its day.'

    20And they meet Moses and Aaron standing to meet them, in their coming out from Pharaoh,

    21and say unto them, `Jehovah look upon you, and judge, because ye have caused our fragrance to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants -- to give a sword into their hand to slay us.'

  • Exod 14:5
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    5And it is declared to the king of Egypt that the people hath fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants is turned against the people, and they say, `What `is' this we have done? that we have sent Israel away from our service.'

  • Exod 1:11-14
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    11And they set over it princes of tribute, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it buildeth store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses;

    12and as they afflict it, so it multiplieth, and so it breaketh forth, and they are vexed because of the sons of Israel;

    13and the Egyptians cause the sons of Israel to serve with rigour,

    14and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every `kind' of service in the field; all their service in which they have served `is' with rigour.

  • Deut 26:6
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    6and the Egyptians do us evil, and afflict us, and put on us hard service;

  • Exod 6:9-10
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    9And Moses speaketh so unto the sons of Israel, and they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for harsh service.

    10And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

  • Exod 5:23
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    23and since I have come unto Pharaoh, to speak in Thy name, he hath done evil to this people, and Thou hast not at all delivered Thy people.'

  • Num 20:15
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    15that our fathers go down to Egypt, and we dwell in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians do evil to us and to our fathers;

  • Lam 5:8
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    8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

  • Exod 14:11-12
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    11And they say unto Moses, `Because there are no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in a wilderness? what is this thou hast done to us -- to bring us out from Egypt?

    12Is not this the word which we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Cease from us, and we serve the Egyptians; for better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in a wilderness?'

  • Lam 5:5-6
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    5For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

    6`To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Neh 5:5
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    5and now, as the flesh of our brethren `is' our flesh, as their sons `are' our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards `are' to others.'

  • Exod 17:3
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    3and the people thirst there for water, and the people murmur against Moses, and say, `Why `is' this? -- thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to put us to death, also our sons and our cattle, with thirst.'

  • Exod 9:17
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    17still thou art exalting thyself against My people -- so as not to send them away;

  • Gen 44:7
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    7and they say unto him, `Why doth my lord speak according to these words? far be it from thy servants to do according to this word;

  • Exod 10:3
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    3And Moses cometh in -- Aaron also -- unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me,