Éxodo 5:18

18 Ahora, ¡vayan a trabajar! No se les va a dar paja, pero tienen que entregar su cuota 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 ni paja recibimos! A pesar de eso, ¡se nos exige hacer ladrillos y, como si fuera poco, se nos golpea! ¡La gente de Su Majestad no está actuando bien!

17 —¡Haraganes, haraganes! —exclamó el faraón—. ¡Eso es lo que son! Por eso andan diciendo: “Déjanos ir a ofrecerle sacrificios al SEÑOR”.

18 Ahora, ¡vayan a trabajar! No se les va a dar paja, pero tienen que entregar su cuota de ladrillos.

19 Los jefes de cuadrilla israelitas se dieron cuenta de que estaban en un aprieto cuando se les dijo que la cuota diaria de ladrillos no se les iba a rebajar.

20 Así que al encontrarse con Moisés y Aarón, que los estaban esperando a la salida,