◄ Exodus 5:16 ►
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Good News Translation
We are given no straw, but we are still ordered to make bricks! And now we are being beaten. It is your people that are at fault."

New Revised Standard Version
No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look how your servants are beaten! You are unjust to your own people.”

Contemporary English Version
No one brings us any straw, but we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame."

New American Bible
No straw is supplied to your servants, and still we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look how your servants are beaten! It is you who are at fault.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before; behold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before; behold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal.

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Context
The Cry of the Israelites
15And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants? 16Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before; behold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal.17And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.…
Cross References
Genesis 11:3
And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:

Exodus 5:15
And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants?

Exodus 5:17
And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

1 Kings 12:14
And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying: My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.

Exodus 5:15
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