Exodus 5:13

and the exactors are making haste, saying, 'Complete your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there is straw.'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12And the people is scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw,

14And the authorities of the sons of Israel, whom the exactors of Pharaoh have placed over them, are beaten, saying, 'Wherefore have ye not completed your portion in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and to-day?'

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Cross References

Exodus 5:11ye — go ye, take for yourselves straw where ye find [it], for there is nothing of your service diminished.'

Job 39:7He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.

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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