Exodus 5:16-21

¹⁶No 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.’

¹⁸Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

¹⁹The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

²⁰When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.

²¹“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”

— Exodus 5:16-21

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Cross References for Exodus 5:16-21

• Genesis 34:30
• Exodus 6:9
• 1 Samuel 27:12
• 2 Samuel 10:6
• 1 Chronicles 19:6
• Genesis 16:5
• 1 Samuel 13:4
• John 6:27
• Joel 2:20
• 2 Thessalonians 3:10-11

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