Esodo 5:8

La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

E pure imponete loro la medesima somma di mattoni che facevano per addietro; non diminuitene nulla; perciocchè essi sono oziosi, e però gridano, dicendo: Andiamo, sacrifichiamo all’Iddio nostro.

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
E imponete loro la stessa quantità di mattoni di prima, senza diminuzione alcuna; perché son de’ pigri; e però gridano dicendo: Andiamo a offrir sacrifizi al nostro Dio!

La Nuova Diodati
Ma imponete loro la stessa quantit di mattoni che facevano prima, senza diminuzione alcuna; poich sono dei pigri; e per questo essi gridano, dicendo: "Andiamo a sacrificare al nostro DIO!".

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.