Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
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Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
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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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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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Passages linked to Exodus 5:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.
- Daniel 2:9-13 But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.” The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean. It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.” Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed. So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 5:18 Go therefore now, [and] work; for there…
Exo 5:18 Go therefore now, [and] work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Ver. 18. Yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.] Or be miserably beaten, if but one be missing. The Spaniards, besides other intolerable burdens and bondages that they lay upon the poor Indians, suppose they show the wretches great favour when they do not, for their pleasure, whip them with cords, and day by day drop their naked bodies with burning bacon. {a} Regimen without righteousness turns into tyranny.
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{a} Sir Francis Drake’s World Encompas., p. 53.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Go therefore now, and work,.... Go about your business,…
Go therefore now, and work,.... Go about your business, attend to your work, even you officers, as well as your people; work yourselves, as well as see that your people do theirs, and do not trouble me with such impertinent applications:
for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks; the usual number of bricks, as the Vulgate Latin version has it; though in Exo 5:8, it is rendered in that version the measure of bricks, and so another word is translated by them, Exo 5:14, and perhaps both may be intended, both number and measure; that is, that it was expected and insisted on that they delivered the full number of bricks they used to make, and these of full measure; for bricks were made of different measures, as Vitruvius (p) observes; some among the bricks were of two hands' breadth, others of four, and a third sort of five. See Gill on Exo 5:7.
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(p) Ut supra. (Vide Vitruvium de Architectura, l. 2. c. 3. p. 46)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Go therefore now and worki.e. "Off with you to…
Go therefore now and worki.e. "Off with you to the brickfields at once, and get to your own special work of superintendence, which you are neglecting so long as you remain here. It is useless to remain. I reject both of your requests. Straw shall not be given; and the tale of bricks required shall be no less."
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