John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 5:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, you shall lay upon them, etc.] Oblige them to make and bring in the same number of bricks they used to do, when straw was brought to them and given them; by which it appears, that their daily task was such a number of bricks: you shall not diminish ought thereof; not make any abatement of the number of bricks, in consideration of their loss of time and their labour in going to fetch straw from other places: for they be idle; and want to be indulged in a lazy disposition, which ought by no means to be connived at: therefore they cry, let us go and sacrifice to our God; suggesting, that this request and cry of theirs did not proceed from a religious principle, or the great veneration they had for their God, but from the sloth and idleness they were addicted to.

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