Exodus 5:17 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 5:17

“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.

KJV

But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.

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Commentary

2 voices

Basil of Caesarea

EXEGETIC HOMILIES 18.8 (379)

Even Pharaoh knew that it was proper for one to seek God when he was unoccupied, and for this reason he reproached Israel: "You are unoccupied, you are idle, and you say, 'We shall offer prayers to the Lord, our God.' " Now leisure itself is good and useful to him who is unoccupied, since it produces quiet for the acquisition of salutary doctrines. But the leisure of the Athenians was evil, "who used to spend all their leisure telling or listening to something new."

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֛אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
נִרְפִּ֥ים	nir.Pim	[are] idle	H7503 →
אַתֶּ֖ם	'a.Tem	you	H859 →
נִרְפִּ֑ים	nir.Pim	idle	H7503 →
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּן֙	ken	-fore	H3651 →
אַתֶּ֣ם	'a.Tem	you	H859 →
אֹֽמְרִ֔ים	'o.me.Rim	[are] saying	H559 →
נֵלְכָ֖ה	ne.le.Khah	let us go	H1980 →
נִזְבְּחָ֥ה	niz.be.Chah	let us sacrifice	H2076 →
לַֽיהוָֽה׃	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk7

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of…
leads to
- Colossians 3:2
  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
- Isaiah 55:2
  Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the…
- John 6:54
  Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- 2 Timothy 2:19
  Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”
- Romans 6:23
  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Through
Matthew 26:8
When the disciples saw this, they were indignant and asked, “Why this waste?
leads to
- John 12:4–6
  But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray Him, asked,
- Mark 14:4
  Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another: “Why this waste of perfume?

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Exodus

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Exodus