Keluaran 5:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi ia berkata: "Pemalas kamu, pemalas! Itulah sebabnya kamu berkata: Izinkanlah kami pergi mempersembahkan korban kepada TUHAN!

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi ia berkata: "Pemalas kamu, pemalas! Itulah sebabnya kamu berkata: Izinkanlah kami pergi mempersembahkan korban kepada TUHAN!

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka titah Firaun: Bahwa kamu berjalan dengan lekamu, bahkan, dengan lekamu, sebab itu sembahmu demikian: Lepaskanlah patik pergi, supaya patik membawa korban kepada Tuhan!

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ The officers also of the children of Israel, came & complayned vnto Pharao, saying: Wherfore dealest thou thus with thy seruauntes? ¹⁶ There is no strawe geuen vnto thy seruauntes, and they say vnto vs, make brycke: and thy seruauntes are beaten, and the fault is thyne owne people. ¹⁷ He sayde: you are idle, idle are you: and therfore you say, we will go, and do sacrifice vnto the Lorde. ¹⁸ Go therfore nowe, & worke, and there shall no strawe be geuen you, & yet shall ye deliuer the whole tale of bricke. ¹⁹ And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in worse case, after it was sayde, ye shall minishe nothyng of your brycke, of your dayly taske in due tyme: ²⁰ And they met Moyses and Aaron, which stoode in their way as they came out from Pharao. ²¹ And saide vnto them: The Lorde looke vpon you & iudge you, which hath made the sauour of vs to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharao, and in the eyes of his seruauntes, and haue put a sworde in their hande to slay vs. ²² Moyses returned vnto the Lorde, and sayd: Lorde, wherfore hast thou so euyll intreated this people? And wherfore hast thou sent me? ²³ For since I came to Pharao to speake in thy name, he hath fared foule with this folke, and yet thou hast not deliuered thy people at all.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 26:8, John 6:27, 2 Thessalonians 3:10, 2 Thessalonians 3:11

Reciprocal: John 12:5 - was Romans 12:11 - slothful

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But he said, ye are idle, ye are idle,.... Instead of expressing indignation at the taskmasters, and relieving the officers and the people, he insults them in a flouting sarcastic way, charging them with sloth and idleness; and which, for the certainty of it, or, however, to show how strongly persuaded and fully assured he was of the truth of it, repeats it, and gives the following as a proof of it,

therefore ye say, let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord; suggesting that it was not so much the service and honour of God they regarded, as that they might have a leisure day from work and labour.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye are idle - The old Egyptian language abounds in epithets which show contempt for idleness. The charge was equally offensive and ingenious; one which would be readily believed by Egyptians who knew how much public and private labors were impeded by festivals and other religious ceremonies. Among the great sins which, according to Egyptian belief, involved condemnation in the final judgment, idleness is twice mentioned.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 5:17. Ye are idle - therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice — It is common for those who feel unconcerned about their own souls to attribute the religious earnestness of others, who feel the importance of eternal things, to idleness or a disregard of their secular concerns. Strange that they cannot see there is a medium! He who has commanded them to be diligent in business, has also commanded them to be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. He whose diligence in business is not connected with a true religious fervour of spirit, is a lover of the world; and whatever form he may have he has not the power of godliness, and therefore is completely out of the road to salvation.