17 But he said, [a]Ye are too much idle: therefore ye say, Let us go to offer sacrifice to the Lord.

18 Go therefore now and work: for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the whole tale of brick.

19 Then the officers of the children of Israel [b]saw themselves in an evil case, because it was said, Ye shall diminish nothing of your brick, nor of every day’s task.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 5:17 Hebrew, idle, ye are idle.
  2. Exodus 5:19 Or, looked sad on them, which said.

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