Exodus 5:13

The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

Majority Standard Bible

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

14Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”

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Cross References

Exodus 5:11Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”

Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a 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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