Exodus 5:13

And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

14And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying: 'Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your appointed task in making brick both yesterday and today as heretofore?'

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Cross References

Exodus 5:11Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.'

Job 39:7He scorneth the tumult of the city, neither heareth he the shoutings 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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