Exodus 5:9
Good News Translation
Make them work harder and keep them busy, so that they won't have time to listen to a pack of lies."

New Revised Standard Version
Let heavier work be laid on them; then they will labor at it and pay no attention to deceptive words.”

Contemporary English Version
Make them work so hard that they won't have time to listen to these lies.

New American Bible
Increase the work for the men, so that they attend to it and not to deceitful words.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that they may not regard lying words.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that they may not regard lying words.

2 Kings 18:20 Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to prepare thyself for battle. On whom dost thou trust, that thou darest to rebel?

Job 16:3 Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?

Jeremiah 43:2 Azarias the son of Osaias, and Johanan the son of Caree, and all the proud men, made answer, saying to Jeremiah: Thou tellest a lie: the Lord our God hath not sent thee, saying: Go not into Egypt, to dwell there.

Zechariah 1:6 But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.

Malachi 3:14 And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

Context
Bricks and Straw
8And 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. 9Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that they may not regard lying words.10And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;…
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 5:10
And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;

Exodus 5:8
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