Exodus 5:17
Good News Translation
The king answered, "You are lazy and don't want to work, and that is why you ask me to let you go and offer sacrifices to the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
He said, “You are lazy, lazy; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’

Contemporary English Version
The king replied, "You are lazy--nothing but lazy! That's why you keep asking me to let you go and sacrifice to your LORD.

New American Bible
He answered, “Lazy! You are lazy! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to the LORD.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

Matthew 26:8 And the disciples seeing it had indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste?

John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

2 Thessalonians 3:10,11 For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat. . . .

Context
The Cry of the Israelites
16Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before; behold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal. 17And he said: You are idle, and therefore you say: Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.18Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.…
Cross References
Exodus 5:8
And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Exodus 5:16
Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before; behold we, thy servants, are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal.

Exodus 5:18
Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.

Exodus 5:16
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