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He said,וַיֹּאמֶר“You are lazy,נִרְפִּים אַתֶּםlazy!נִרְפִּיםThat is whyעַל כֵּןyouאַתֶּםsay,אֹמְרִים‘Let us goנֵלְכָהand sacrificeנִזְבְּחָהto YHWH.’לַיהוָה
Exodus 5:17
Study it in the app“He said, “You are lazy, lazy! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to YHWH.’”
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 5:17, word by word
- He saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- “You are lazyנִרְפִּיםnirpim
be lazy
Unwilling to work.
Where else “nirpim” appears- ‘Let us goנֵלְכָהnelcha
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “nelcha” appears- and sacrificeנִזְבְּחָהnizbcha
sacrifice
To kill an animal as a gift to God or other gods.
Where else “nizbcha” appears- to YHWH.’יהוָהyhva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yhva” appears
The context
16No straw is given to your servants, yet bricks! they keep saying to us, ‘Make them!’ And look, your servants are beaten; but the sin is your people’s.”
17 · This verse (above)
18So now go and work; and straw will not be given to you, yet the quota of bricks you shall deliver.”