Exodus 5:18
Good News Translation
Now get back to work! You will not be given any straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks."

New Revised Standard Version
Go now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks.”

Contemporary English Version
Get back to work! You won't be given straw, but you must still make the same number of bricks."

New American Bible
Now off to work! No straw will be supplied to you, but you must supply your quota of bricks.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.

yet shall ye deliver

Ezekiel 18:18 As for his father, because he oppressed and offered violence to his brother, and wrought evil in the midst of his people, behold he is dead in his own iniquity.

Daniel 2:9-13 If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof. . . .

Context
The Cry of the Israelites
17And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. 18Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.19And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.…
Cross References
Exodus 5:17
And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

Exodus 5:19
And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.

Exodus 5:17
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