2 Mose 5:16

Lutherbibel

Man gibt den Knechten kein Stroh, und sie sollen die Ziegel machen, die uns bestimmt sind; siehe deine Knechte werden geschlagen, und dein Volk muß schuldig sein.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Man gibt deinen Knechten kein Stroh und spricht zu uns: Macht die Ziegel! Und siehe, deine Knechte werden geschlagen; womit hat sich dein Volk versündigt?

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Stroh wird deinen Knechten nicht gegeben, und man sagt zu uns: Machet Ziegel! Und siehe, deine Knechte werden geschlagen, und es ist die Schuld deines Volkes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered Ezekiel 16:4 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There is no straw given unto thy servants,.... As used to be, which they supposed Pharaoh knew nothing of, and by which it appears that the order given by Pharaoh, Exodus 5:6 was not given in the hearing of the officers, only to the taskmasters, and by them to be made known to the officers, though indeed both are there mentioned, and both represent this to the people, Exodus 5:10

and they say to us, make brick, though they had no straw to make or burn it with:

and, behold, thy servants are beaten; because the same number of bricks is not made as heretofore, but the fault is in thine own people; the taskmasters, who sent the people abroad to get straw or stubble themselves, and therefore could not make the same bricks as before; or "thy people sin" n, the guilt is theirs: or by thy people are meant the Israelites, whom they call Pharaoh's people to gain favour with him; and then the sense is, either "sin" is imputed "to thy people" o, the blame is laid upon them, or punishment is inflicted on them without cause, sin being often put for punishment; they are wrongfully charged with a fault, and wrongfully punished.

n וחטאת עמך "et peccat populus tuns", Montanus, Drusius, Cartwright. o So Vatablus, Piscator, and some in Munster, Pagninus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 5:16. The fault is in thine own people. — חטאת chatath, the SIN, is in thy own people. 1st. Because they require impossibilities; and 2dly, because they punish us for not doing what cannot be performed.