Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."
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Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."
Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Let the slavery be heavy on the men so they shall do it and shall not gaze at words of lies.”
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."
Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”
Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”
Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard lying words.
Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words.
Lay more worke vpon the men, and cause them to do it, and let the not regard vaine words.
Let them be oppressed, with works, and let them fulfill them: that they may not regard lying words.
let the service be heavy on the men, and let them work at it, and not be dazzled by lying words.'
let the service be heavy on the men, and let them work at it, and not be dazzled by lying words.”
Increase the workload for the men so that they keep at it and pay no more attention to deceptive words.”
Let the slavery be heavy on the men so they shall do it and shall not gaze at words of lies.”
Let them put heavier labour on the men, that they may be taken up with it, and not regard vain words.
Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
Let more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein: and let them not regard vain words.
Make their work harder so they can get on with it and not pay any attention to all these lies!”
Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.
Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words.'
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The rarest word here is יִשְׁע֖וּ to look H8159 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
יִשְׁע֖וּ to look H8159 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 15 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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תִּכְבַּ֧ד הָעֲבֹדָ֛ה עַל הָאֲנָשִׁ֖ים וְיַעֲשׂוּ בָ֑הּ וְאַל יִשְׁע֖וּ בְּדִבְרֵי שָֽׁקֶר
Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."
World English Bible · Public Domain
βαρύνω ὁ ἔργον ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος καί μεριμνάω οὗτος καί μή μεριμνάω ἐν λόγος κενός
Let the works of these men be made grievous, and let them care for these things, and not care for vain words.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
תִּתָּקַף פָּלְחָנָא עַל גֻבְרַיָא וְיִתְעַסְקוּן בַּהּ וְלָא יִתְעַסְקוּן בְּפִתְגָמִ ין בְּטֵלִין:
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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
תִּתְקַף פּוּלְחָנָא עִלוֹי גוּבְרַיָא וְיִתְעַסְקוּן בָּה וְלָא יִתְרַחֲצוּן עַל מִילֵי שִׁקְרָא
Make their work strenuous upon the men, that they may be occupied with it, and not be setting their hopes upon lying words.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâʻâh (“to look”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 5:9 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.