Exodus 5:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And the Israelite supervisors whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them were beaten and were asked, “Why did you not finish the required quantity of bricks yesterday and today, as you did before?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the Hebrew foremen, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, Why have you not fulfilled all your quota of making bricks yesterday and today, as before?

American Standard Version (1901)

And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and to-day, in making brick as heretofore?

Common English Bible

The Israelite supervisors, whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them, were also beaten and asked, “Why didn’t you produce the same number of bricks yesterday and today as you did before?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And those who were first in the works of the sons of Israel were scourged by Pharaoh's taskmasters, saying: "Why have you not filled the quota of bricks, neither yesterday, nor today, just as before?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they that were over the works of the children of Israel were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks both yesterday and today as before?

Exodus 5:14 Cross References

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

Exodus 5:13

The taskmasters urged them on, saying, “Complete your work, the same daily assignment as when you were given straw.”

Exodus 5:15

Then the Israelite supervisors came to Pharaoh and cried, “Why do you treat your servants like this?

Exodus 5:6

That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, as well as their supervisors,

Isaiah 10:24

Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O my people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they beat you with a rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.