Exodus 5:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s slave drivers had set over the people, were beaten  and asked, ‘Why haven’t you finished making your prescribed number of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before? ’

Cross References

Isaiah 10:24

Therefore, the Lord God of Armies says this: ‘My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, though they strike you with a rod and raise their staff over you as the Egyptians did.

Exodus 5:6

That day Pharaoh commanded the overseers  of the people as well as their foremen,

Exodus 5:13

The overseers insisted, ‘Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.’

Exodus 5:15

So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: ‘Why are you treating your servants this way?

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with difficult labour in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.