出埃及记 5:11

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們自己能在哪裡找到草，就到哪裡去撿吧，但你們的工作一點也不可減少。’”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 自 己 在 那 里 能 找 草 ， 就 往 那 里 去 找 罢 ！ 但 你 们 的 工 一 点 不 可 减 少 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ So the slave masters and foremen went to the Israelites and said, "This is what the king says: I will no longer give you straw. ¹¹ Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it. But you must make as many bricks as you made before." ¹² So the people went everywhere in Egypt looking for dry stalks to use for straw. ¹³ The slave masters kept forcing the people to work harder. They said, "You must make just as many bricks as you did when you were given straw." ¹⁴ The king's slave masters had made the Israelite foremen responsible for the work the people did. The Egyptian slave masters beat these men and asked them, "Why aren't you making as many bricks as you made in the past?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

not ought: Exodus 5:13, Exodus 5:14

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Go ye, get ye straw, where you can find it,.... Before it was provided by the king, and brought to the brickkilns, but now they are bid to go and fetch it themselves, and get it where they could, whether in fields or barns; and if they were obliged to pay for it out of their labour; it was a greater oppression still:

yet not ought of your work shall be diminished; they were to do the same work, and make the same number of bricks, as when straw was brought and given them; and no allowance made for waste of time in seeking, or expenses in procuring straw, which was very hard upon them.