Exodus 5:8
Good News Translation
But still require them to make the same number of bricks as before, not one brick less. They don't have enough work to do, and that is why they keep asking me to let them go and offer sacrifices to their God!

New Revised Standard Version
But you shall require of them the same quantity of bricks as they have made previously; do not diminish it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’

Contemporary English Version
but they must make the same number of bricks as before. They are lazy, or else they would not beg me to let them go and sacrifice to their God.

New American Bible
Yet you shall levy upon them the same quota of bricks as they made previously. Do not reduce it. They are lazy; that is why they are crying, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifice to our God.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

tale.

ye shall lay.

Psalm 106:41 And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had dominion over them.

Context
Bricks and Straw
7You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw. 8And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.9Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that they may not regard lying words.…
Cross References
Exodus 5:7
You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw.

Exodus 5:9
Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that they may not regard lying words.

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 5:7
Top of Page
Top of Page