Exodus 5:7
in Exodus 5“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
KJV
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
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This verse in Exodus 5
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Some of the most ancient buildings in Egypt were constructed of bricks not burned, but dried in the sun; they were made of clay, or more commonly of mud, mixed with straw chopped into small pieces. An immense quantity of straw must have been wanted for the works on which the Israelites were engaged, and their labors must have been more than doubled by this requisition.
This site's exposition
Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters
on Exodus 5:6-7
Two ranks stand between Pharaoh and the brickfield, the taskmasters who are Egyptians and the officers who are Israelites set over their own countrymen. Verse 14 shows the arrangement working, since it is the Hebrew officers who are beaten when the count falls short. The straw was chopped and mixed into the clay, and Egyptian sun dried brick has been recovered with the straw still in it.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick--The making of bricks appears to have been a government monopoly as the ancient bricks are nearly all stamped with the name of a king, and they were formed, as they are still in Lower Egypt, of clay mixed with chopped straw and dried or hardened in the sun.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תֹאסִפ֞וּן | tosifun | you will repeat ! | H3254 → | 212 times |
| לָתֵ֨ת | latet | to give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| תֶּ֧בֶן | teven | straw | H8401 → | 17 times |
| לָעָ֛ם | laam | to the people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| לִלְבֹּ֥ן | lilbon | to make bricks | H3835 → | |
| הַלְּבֵנִ֖ים | halevenim | the bricks | H3843 → | 12 times |
| כִּתְמ֣וֹל | kitmol | as yesterday | H8543 → | 23 times |
| שִׁלְשֹׁ֑ם | shilshom | three days ago | H8032 → | 24 times |
| הֵ֚ם | hem | they | H1992 → | 553 times |
| יֵֽלְכ֔וּ | yelekhu | let them go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| וְקֹשְׁשׁ֥וּ | vekosheshu | and they may gather | H7197 → | |
| לָהֶ֖ם | lahem | for <the> themselves | ||
| תֶּֽבֶן׃ | teven | straw | H8401 → | 17 times |
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תֹאסִפ֞וּןyou will repeat !
tosifunH3254 →212 times
לָתֵ֨תto give
latetH5414 →2011 times
תֶּ֧בֶןstraw
tevenH8401 →17 times
לָעָ֛םto the people
laamH5971 →1873 times
לִלְבֹּ֥ןto make bricks
lilbonH3835 →
הַלְּבֵנִ֖יםthe bricks
halevenimH3843 →12 times
כִּתְמ֣וֹלas yesterday
kitmolH8543 →23 times
שִׁלְשֹׁ֑םthree days ago
shilshomH8032 →24 times
הֵ֚םthey
hemH1992 →553 times
יֵֽלְכ֔וּlet them go
yelekhuH1980 →1546 times
וְקֹשְׁשׁ֥וּand they may gather
vekosheshuH7197 →
לָהֶ֖םfor <the> themselves
lahem
תֶּֽבֶן׃straw
tevenH8401 →17 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
4 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 24:25Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
it leads to
- 1 Peter 4:9
Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
- Isaiah 32:8
But a noble man makes honorable plans; he stands up for worthy causes.
- Judges 19:19–21
even though there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the maidservant and young man with me. There is nothing that we, your servants, lack.”
- Genesis 18:4–8
Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
- 1 Peter 4:9
About Exodus
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.