KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Exodus 5:6–18
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Exodus 5:6
6And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
6And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taske-masters of the people, and their officers, saying;
Exodus 5:7
7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
7Yee shall no more giue the people straw to make bricke, as heretofore: let them goe and gather straw for themselues.
Exodus 5:8
8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
8And the tale of the brickes which they did make heretofore, you shall lay vpon them: you shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us goe and sacrifice to our God.
Exodus 5:9
9Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
9†Let there more worke be layde vpon the men, that they may labour therein, and let them not regard vaine wordes.
- Heb. let the worke be heauy vpon the men.
Exodus 5:10
10¶ And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
10¶ And the taske-masters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not giue you straw.
Exodus 5:11
11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
11Goe ye, get you straw where you can find it: yet not ought of your worke shall be diminished.
Exodus 5:12
12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
12So the people were scattered abroad throughout al the land of Egypt, to gather stubble in stead of straw.
Exodus 5:13
13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
13And the taske-masters hasted them, saying; Fulfill your workes, your †dayly taskes, as when there was straw.
- Hebr. a matter of a day in his day.
Exodus 5:14
14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaohs task-masters had set ouer them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore haue ye not fulfilled your taske, in making bricke, both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
Exodus 5:15
15¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
15¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cryed vnto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy seruants?
Exodus 5:16
16There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
16There is no straw giuen vnto thy seruants, and they say to vs, Make bricke: and beholde, thy seruants are beaten; but the fault is in thine owne people.
Exodus 5:17
17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.
17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let vs goe and doe sacrifice to the LORD.
Exodus 5:18
18Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
18Goe therefore now and worke: for there shall no straw bee giuen you, yet shall ye deliuer the tale of brickes.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:6
Ordered; directed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
taskmasters
Overseers who impose, assign, and exact labor or tasks.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Exodus 5:7
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
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To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A block of formed and burned clay used for building.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
heretofore
Times before the present; formerly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To collect, bring together, or assemble.
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Exodus 5:8
A number or count; an account or report, according to context.
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Blocks chiefly made of clay, formed, dried, and burned for building.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
heretofore
Times before the present; formerly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To lessen or make smaller.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Should or is bound to; expresses duty, fitness, or necessity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Slothful; given to rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy.
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To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An offering.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:9
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Labor, activity, deed, operation, or a result produced; as a verb, to labor, act, make, produce, or bring about.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Placed, set down, imposed, or arranged.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Respect; esteem; reverence; that view of the mind which springs from value, estimable qualities, or any thing that excites admiration.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Empty, worthless, fruitless, false, or without effect.
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Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:10
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
taskmasters
Overseers who impose, assign, and exact labor or tasks.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:11
To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
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To discover, meet with, obtain, perceive, or learn by search or experience.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Should or is bound to; expresses duty, fitness, or necessity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Labor, activity, deed, operation, or a result produced; as a verb, to labor, act, make, produce, or bring about.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
diminished
Lessened; made smaller; reduced in size; contracted; degraded.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:12
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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Dispersed, separated, or spread abroad.
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Out of one's house; away from home; from a distance.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To collect, bring together, or assemble.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The cut, dry remnants of grain stalks, literally or as a figure of what is easily scattered or burned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
In the place or room of another.
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Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:13
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
taskmasters
Overseers who impose, assign, and exact labor or tasks.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To haste: to hurry, act quickly, or make speed.
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To accomplish, complete, perform, or bring to pass.
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Acts, deeds, labours, or things produced; also acts or operates.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Assigned amounts of labor or work required to be performed.
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Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Exodus 5:14
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
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APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
taskmasters
Overseers who impose, assign, and exact labor or tasks.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Called for; claimed; challenged as due; requested; required; interrogated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Why; for what reason.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The fixed daily amount of labor imposed and required by authority.
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A block of formed and burned clay used for building.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The preceding day, or figuratively the former time immediately past.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
heretofore
Times before the present; formerly.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:15
Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Why; for what reason.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:16
Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
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Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
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Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A block of formed and burned clay used for building.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
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But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Properly, an erring or missing; a failing; hence, an error or mistake; a blunder; a defect; a blemish; whatever impairs excellence; applied to things.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:17
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Slothful; given to rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An offering.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 5:18
Labor, activity, deed, operation, or a result produced; as a verb, to labor, act, make, produce, or bring about.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Dry stalks of grain used as fodder, bedding, or material for brick.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To rescue, set free, hand over, give up, or bring forth, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A number or count; an account or report, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Blocks chiefly made of clay, formed, dried, and burned for building.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study10¶ And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
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Open the full verse study19And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
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Open the full verse study11Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.
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Open the full verse study15So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
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Open the full verse study18¶ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
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Open the full verse study11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
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Open the full verse study7¶ And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
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Open the full verse study13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
15¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
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Open the full verse study4And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
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Open the full verse study33And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
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Open the full verse study16¶ And the Lord 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 tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
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Open the full verse study1AND Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
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Open the full verse study10A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study25She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
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Open the full verse study19Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study41And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study20Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
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Open the full verse study6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
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Open the full verse study2Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the Lord our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
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Open the full verse study3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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Open the full verse study14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
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Open the full verse study6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
From verse 10
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Open the full verse study11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
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Open the full verse study7¶ And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
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Open the full verse study12If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
From verse 11
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Open the full verse study13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
From verse 12
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Open the full verse study12Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
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Open the full verse study7And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
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Open the full verse study14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
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Open the full verse study24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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Open the full verse study5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
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Open the full verse study10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
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Open the full verse study18And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it.
From verse 14
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Open the full verse study24¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
11For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
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Open the full verse study8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
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Open the full verse study27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
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Open the full verse study8But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
From verse 18
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Open the full verse study9But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
10¶ The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
11And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
12For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
13And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
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Open the full verse study18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
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