出埃及记 5:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們往日做磚的數量，你們還是向他們要，一點也不可減少，因為他們是懶惰的，所以他們才呼喊說：‘讓我們去獻祭給我們的　神。’

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 素 常 做 砖 的 数 目 ， 你 们 仍 旧 向 他 们 要 ， 一 点 不 可 减 少 ； 因 为 他 们 是 懒 惰 的 ， 所 以 呼 求 说 ： 容 我 们 去 祭 祀 我 们 的 　 神 。

Contextual Overview

³ Then Aaron and Moses said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us travel three days into the desert to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God. If we don't do this, he may kill us with a disease or in war." ⁴ But the king said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their work? Go back to your jobs! ⁵ There are very many Hebrews, and now you want them to quit working!" ⁶ That same day the king gave a command to the slave masters and foremen. ⁷ He said, "Don't give the people straw to make bricks as you used to do. Let them gather their own straw. ⁸ But they must still make the same number of bricks as they did before. Do not accept fewer. They have become lazy, and that is why they are asking me, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifices to our God.' ⁹ Make these people work harder and keep them busy; then they will not have time to listen to the lies of Moses."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tale: Tale denotes number, from the Anglo-Saxon taellan, to number, count, etc.

ye shall lay: Psalms 106:41

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 9:10 - they John 12:5 - was

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, you shall lay upon them,.... Oblige them to make and bring in the same number of bricks they used to do, when straw was brought to them and given them; by which it appears, that their daily task was such a number of bricks:

you shall not diminish ought thereof; not make any abatement of the number of bricks, in consideration of their loss of time and their labour in going to fetch straw from other places:

for they be idle; and want to be indulged in a lazy disposition, which ought by no means to be connived at:

therefore they cry, let us go and sacrifice to our God; suggesting, that this request and cry of theirs did not proceed from a religious principle, or the great veneration they had for their God, but from the sloth and idleness they were addicted to.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 5:8. And the tale of the bricks — Tale signifies the number, from the Anglo-Saxon [Anglo-Saxon], to number, to count, c.

For they be idle therefore they cry - Let us go and sacrifice — Thus their desire to worship the true God in a proper manner was attributed to their unwillingness to work; a reflection which the Egyptians (in principle) of the present day cast on these who, while they are fervent in spirit serving the Lord, are not slothful in business. Exodus 5:17.