Bricks and Straw
Exodus 5:7
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
- KJV
- Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- WEB
- “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- ASV
- Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- LSV
- “You do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks as before—they go and have gathered straw for themselves;
- YLT
- 'Ye do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks, as heretofore — they go and have gathered straw for themselves;
- DBY
- Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- DRC
- You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before: but let them go and gather straw.
- GNV
- Ye shall giue the people no more strawe, to make bricke (as in time past) but let them goe and gather them strawe them selues:
- JPS
- 'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- LXXE
- Ye shall no longer give straw to the people for brick-making as yesterday and the third day; but let them go themselves, and collect straw for themselves.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- לֹ֣א תֹאסִפ֞וּן לָתֵ֨ת תֶּ֧בֶן לָעָ֛ם לִלְבֹּ֥ן הַלְּבֵנִ֖ים כִּתְמ֣וֹל שִׁלְשֹׁ֑ם הֵ֚ם יֵֽלְכ֔וּ וְקֹשְׁשׁ֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם תֶּֽבֶן׃
- LXX-Br
- οὐκέτι προστεθήσεσθε διδόναι ἄχυρον τῷ λαῷ εἰς τὴν πλινθουργίαν, καθάπερ χθὲς καὶ τρίτην ἡμέραν· ἀλλ αὐτοὶ πορευέσθωσαν καὶ συναγαγέτωσαν ἑαυτοῖς ἄχυρα.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Judges 19:19even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
- Genesis 24:25Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).