KJV King James Version
Go therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
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Exodus 5:18
Go therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
WEB World English Bible
Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
ASV American Standard Version
Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and now, go, serve; and straw is not given to you, and the measure of bricks ye do give.’
Surrounding context — Exodus 5
15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants [are] beaten; but the fault [is] in thine own people.
17 But he said, Ye [are] idle, [ye are] idle: therefore ye say, Let us go [and] do sacrifice to the LORD.
18 Go therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see [that] they [were] in evil [case], after it was said, Ye shall not minish [ought] from your bricks of your daily task.
20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
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Ezekiel 18:18[As for] his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did [that] which [is] not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.Daniel 2:9-13But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, [there is but] one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
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