Exodus 5:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But the slave bosses were hard on them and kept saying, “Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw.”

Cross References

Ezra 3:4

The people followed the rules for celebrating the Festival of Shelters and offered the proper sacrifices each day.

Job 39:7

They stay far from crowded cities and refuse to be tamed.

Exodus 1:11

The Egyptians put slave bosses in charge of the people of Israel and tried to wear them down with hard work. Those bosses forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses, where the king could store his supplies.

Exodus 5:11

Go and find your own straw wherever you can, but you must still make as many bricks as before.”

Exodus 5:12

The slaves went all over Egypt, looking for straw.

Exodus 5:14

The bosses beat the men in charge of the slaves and said, “Why didn't you force the slaves to make as many bricks yesterday and today as they did before?”

Exodus 5:6

That same day the king gave orders to his slave bosses and to the men directly in charge of the Israelite slaves. He told them: