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Exodus 5:18
Exodus 5:18 is verse 18 of Exodus chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
King James Version
Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
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!”
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Exodus 5:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
17 “You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
18 Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
19 The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
20 When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.”
Daniel 2:10The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.
Daniel 2:11What the king requests is so difficult that no one can tell it to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals.”
Daniel 2:12This response made the king so furious with anger that he gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:13So the decree went out that the wise men were to be executed, and men went to look for Daniel and his friends to execute them.