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Exodus 5:6

Exodus chapter 5 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

Context

v.5And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

v.6This passage

v.7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 5:19

    And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, when it was said, Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, your daily tasks.

  • Joshua 8:33

    And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the sojourner as the home-born; half of them in front of mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

  • Joshua 24:4

    And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

  • Numbers 11:16

    And Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.

  • 2 Chronicles 26:11

    Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.

  • Exodus 3:7

    And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;