Exodus 5:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.””
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“Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and now, go, serve; and straw is not given to you, and the measure of bricks ye do give.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 5:18 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 10:11Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”
- Ecclesiastes 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
- Ezekiel 18:18As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.
- Daniel 2:9If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”
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