Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 5:10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 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. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they said to the people, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible So the people’s slave masters and supervisors came out and spoke to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says, ‘I’m not giving you straw anymore. Catholic Public Domain Version And so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: "Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao, I allow you no straw. |
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words.
The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.