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Exodus 5:16-18
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Exodus 5:16-18
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
16 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.’[a] 17 He said, ‘You are lazy, lazy; that is why you say, “Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.” 18 Go now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks.’
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- Exodus 5:16 Gk Compare Syr Vg: Heb beaten, and the sin of your people
Exodus 5:16-18
New International Version
Exodus 5:16-18
New International Version
16 Your servants are given no straw, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
17 Pharaoh said, “Lazy, that’s what you are—lazy!(A) That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ 18 Now get to work.(B) You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.”
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