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John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 5:18
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Go therefore now, and work, etc.] 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 (<020508>Exodus 5:8), it is rendered in that version the measure of bricks, and so another word is translated by them, (<020514>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 f164 observes; some among the bricks were of two hands’ breadth, others of four, and a third sort of five. (See Gill on “<020507>Exodus 5:7”).
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