Quotes about Labor
Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”
- Exodus 5:5
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
- Exodus 5:7
So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.
- Exodus 5:10
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
- Exodus 5:11
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
- Exodus 5:13
No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
- Exodus 5:16
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
- Exodus 5:18
The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
- Exodus 5:19
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
- Exodus 20:9
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
- Exodus 34:21
If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
- Leviticus 25:39
Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
- Leviticus 25:44