NET Bible
"So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”"
— Exodus 5:18, NET Bible
“Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.”
“Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks. ”
“Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"”
“Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.”
“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.”
“Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.”
The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?
No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”
But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’”
So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”
The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”
When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,
and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”