Exodus 5:13

The taskmasters kept urging them and saying, “Finish your work, just as when straw was given to you.”

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

In Context

12So the people scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

14Pharaoh's taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen, those same men whom they had put in charge of the workers. The taskmasters kept asking them, “Why have you not produced all the bricks required of you, either yesterday and today, as you used to do in the past?”

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Cross References

Exodus 5:11You yourselves must go and get straw wherever you can find it, but your workload will not be reduced.'”

Job 39:7He laughs in scorn at the noises in the city; 1 he does not hear the driver's shouts. 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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