Exodus 5:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?

Cross References

Job 3:18

There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.

Exodus 1:11

So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 5:14

And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?

Exodus 5:16

They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.