Exodus 5:13

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The slave drivers kept hurrying them. They said, “Finish the same amount of work each day, just as when you had straw.”

Cross References

Ezra 3:4

Following the written directions, they celebrated the Festival of Booths. Each day they sacrificed the required number of burnt offerings.

Job 39:7

It laughs at the noise of the city and doesn’t ⌞even⌟ listen to the shouting of its master.

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians put slave drivers in charge of them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 5:11

Get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work load will not be reduced one bit.”

Exodus 5:12

So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Exodus 5:14

Pharaoh’s slave drivers had placed Israelite foremen in charge of the people. The slave drivers beat the foremen and said, “You didn’t finish all the bricks you were ordered to make yesterday or today. Why didn’t you make as many as you used to?”

Exodus 5:6

That same day Pharaoh gave these orders to the slave drivers and foremen: