But you shall impose on them the quota of bricks which they were making before; you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are (A)lazy, for that reason they cry [a]out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 5:8 Lit out, saying,

You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’

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But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don’t reduce the quota.(A) They are lazy;(B) that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’(C)

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