Catholic Public Domain Version
"They shall be oppressed with works, and these shall occupy them, so that they may not agree to lying words.” "
— Exodus 5:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.”
“Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard lying words. ”
“Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."”
“Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!””
“Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that they may not regard lying words.”
“Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.”
“Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.”
Therefore, on the same day, he instructed the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters of the people, saying:
“You shall no longer give chaff to the people to form bricks, as before. But they may go and gather straw.
And you shall impose upon them the same quota of bricks that they made before. Neither will you lessen anything, for they are idle, and therefore they cry out, saying: ‘We shall go and sacrifice to our God.’
They shall be oppressed with works, and these shall occupy them, so that they may not agree to lying words.”
And so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: “Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff.
Go, and collect it wherever you are able to find it. Neither will anything of your work be diminished.”
And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw.