Exodus 5:17
But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.
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Exodus 5:17
But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.
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Exodus 5:4
And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.
Exodus 5:7
Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.
Exodus 5:8
But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.
Exodus 5:9
Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.
Exodus 5:10
And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.
Exodus 5:11
Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.
Exodus 5:12
So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.
Exodus 5:13
And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.
Exodus 5:14
And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?
Exodus 5:15
Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?
Exodus 5:16
They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.
Exodus 5:17
But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.
Exodus 5:18
Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.
Exodus 5:19
Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.
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Exodus 1:12
But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.
Exodus 1:13
And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
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Matthew 26:8
But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
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Exodus 5:20
And they came face to face with Moses and Aaron, who were in their way when they came out from Pharaoh:
Exodus 5:21
And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.
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Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
Malachi 1:10
If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.
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Malachi 1:13
And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.
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