Exodus 5:13

And the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given you.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 dispersed in all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

14And the accountants of the race of the children of Israel, who were set over them by the masters of Pharaoh, were scourged, and questioned, men saying, Why have ye not fulfilled your rates of brickwork as yesterday and the third day, today also?

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Cross References

Exodus 5:11Go ye, yourselves, get for yourselves straw whencesoever ye can find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate.

Job 39:7He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, 1 And hears not the chiding of the tax gatherer. 1

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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