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La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

Esodo 5:16

E’ non si dà paglia a’ tuoi servitori, e pur ci dicono: Fate de’ mattoni; ed ora i tuoi servitori son battuti; e il tuo popolo commette fallo.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Brick;   Cruelty;   Petition;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Straw;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - War;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brick;   Exodus;   Pharaoh;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bricks;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Brick;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Straw;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brick;   Fault;  

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
Non si dà più paglia ai tuoi servitori, e ci si dice: Fate de’ mattoni! ed ecco che i tuoi servitori sono battuti, e il tuo popolo è considerato come colpevole!"
La Nuova Diodati
Non si d pi paglia ai tuoi servi, e ci viene detto: "Fate dei mattoni!" Ed ecco, i tuoi servi sono battuti, ma la colpa del tuo popolo".

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.


 
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