Exodus - 5:18



18 Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"

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Explanation and meaning of Exodus 5:18.

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Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Go therefore, and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.
And now go work! and straw shall not be given you, and ye shall deliver the measure of bricks.
and now, go, serve; and straw is not given to you, and the measure of bricks ye do give.'
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.
Therefore, go and work. Straw will not be given to you, and you will return the customary number of bricks."
Nunc igitur ite, operamini: et paleae non dabuntur vobis, et summam laterum reddetis.

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Go therefore now, and work,.... Go about your business, attend to your work, even you officers, as well as your people; work yourselves, as well as see that your people do theirs, and do not trouble me with such impertinent applications:
for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks; the usual number of bricks, as the Vulgate Latin version has it; though in Exodus 5:8, it is rendered in that version the measure of bricks, and so another word is translated by them, Exodus 5:14, and perhaps both may be intended, both number and measure; that is, that it was expected and insisted on that they delivered the full number of bricks they used to make, and these of full measure; for bricks were made of different measures, as Vitruvius (p) observes; some among the bricks were of two hands' breadth, others of four, and a third sort of five. See Gill on Exodus 5:7.
(p) Ut supra. (Vide Vitruvium de Architectura, l. 2. c. 3. p. 46)

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