Exodus 5:13

The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”

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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.

14The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”

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Cross References

Exodus 5:11Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”

Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting 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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