Exodus 5:16
14 Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”
15 So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
No 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.’
18 Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- No 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.”
- KJV
- There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
- WEB
- No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”
- ASV
- There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault it in thine own people.
- DARBY
- There is no straw given to thy bondmen, and they say to us, Make brick; and behold, thy bondmen are beaten, but it is the fault of thy people.
- BLB
- Straw is not being given to your servants, and they are saying to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants [are] beaten, and the fault [is] in your people.”
- ÅB
- Dine tjenere får ikke halm, og allikevel sier de til oss: Gjør tegl! Og så får dine tjenere hugg, enda det er ditt eget folk som har skylden.
- OTB
- Dine tjenere får ingen halm, men de sier til oss: 'Lag murstein!' Og se, dine tjenere blir slått, men skylden ligger hos ditt eget folk.»
- B1930
- Dine tjenere får ikke halm, og allikevel sier de til oss: Gjør tegl! Og så får dine tjenere hugg, enda det er ditt eget folk som har skylden.