Exodus 5:13

And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfill your work every day as before you were wont to do when straw was given you.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.

14And they that were over the works of the children of Israel were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks both yesterday and to day as before?

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Cross References

Exodus 5:11Go, and gather it where you can find it: neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.

Job 39:7He scorneth the multitude of the city, he heareth not the cry of the driver.

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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