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).