Do not reduce it. They are lazy; that is why they are crying, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifice to our God.’New Revised Standard VersionBut you shall require of them the same quantity of bricks as they have made previously; do not diminish it, for they are lazy; that is why they ...
nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather maycontinue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricksmight be dried." He said to her, "If your sister wishes for rain,and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join mywishes?' Page20The Farmer and...