But Pharaoh replied, ¹  “You are slackers! Slackers! ²  That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

biblegateway Exo 5:17

But he said, "You are lazy, very lazy; therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’

But he said, "You are slackers. Slackers! That is why you are saying, 'Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.'

"You’re lazy! Just plain lazy!" Pharaoh answered. "That’s why you keep saying, ‘Let us go offer sacrifices to the LORD.’

biblegateway Exo 5:17

Pharaoh said, "Lazy, that’s what you are—lazy! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’

But he said, "You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'

bibleoremus Exo 5:17

He said, "You are lazy, lazy; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’

The king replied, “You are lazy, bone lazy! That is why you keep on about going to offer sacrifice to the LORD.

biblegateway Exo 5:17

But he said, "You are idle! Idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’

But he said, Ye [are] idle, [ye are] idle: therefore ye say, Let us go [and] do sacrifice to the LORD.

biblegateway Exo 5:17

But Pharaoh replied, ¹  “You are slackers! Slackers! ²  That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

¹ tn Heb “And he said.”

² tn Or “loafers.” The form נִרְפִּים (nirpim) is derived from the verb רָפָה (rafah), meaning “to be weak, to let oneself go.”