Exodus 5:13

And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

In Context

12So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

14And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?

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Cross References

Exodus 5:11Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.

Job 39:7\39:4\Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 5:11-15

10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. 11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished. 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. 13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. 14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which… Read the whole commentary →

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