Éxodo 5:18

18 ¡Vuelvan ya mismo a trabajar! No se les dará paja, pero aun así tendrán que producir la cuota completa de ladrillos.

Éxodo 5:18 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 5:18

Go therefore now, and work
Go about your business, attend to your work, even you officers, as well as your people; work yourselves, as well as see that your people do theirs, and do not trouble me with such impertinent applications:

for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of
bricks;
the usual number of bricks, as the Vulgate Latin version has it; though in ( Exodus 5:8 ) , it is rendered in that version the measure of bricks, and so another word is translated by them, ( Exodus 5:14 ) , and perhaps both may be intended, both number and measure; that is, that it was expected and insisted on that they delivered the full number of bricks they used to make, and these of full measure; for bricks were made of different measures, as Vitruvius ^F16 observes; some among the bricks were of two hands' breadth, others of four, and a third sort of five. (See Gill on Exodus 5:7).

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Ut supra. (Vide Vitruvium de Architectura, l. 2. c. 3. p. 46)

Éxodo 5:18 In-Context

16 Ya no nos dan paja, ¡pero aun así los capataces nos exigen que sigamos haciendo ladrillos! Nos golpean, ¡pero no es nuestra culpa! ¡Es culpa de su propia gente!

17 Pero el faraón gritó:
—¡Ustedes son unos holgazanes! ¡Haraganes! Por eso andan diciendo: “Déjenos ir a ofrecer sacrificios al Señor
”.

18 ¡Vuelvan ya mismo a trabajar! No se les dará paja, pero aun así tendrán que producir la cuota completa de ladrillos.

19 Los jefes de cuadrilla israelitas se dieron cuenta de que estaban en serios problemas cuando les dijeron: «No debe disminuir la cantidad de ladrillos que se fabrica por día».

20 Al salir del palacio del faraón, se cruzaron con Moisés y con Aarón, quienes estaban esperándolos afuera.