tale. A. S. talu,. number.
thereof. The suffix is Masculine and refers to the people, "diminish [your exactions] from them. "
and. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Targum of Onkelos, and Septuagint, read "that we may".
Related Commentaries of Exodus 5:8
Exodus 5:8
8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.