Exodus 5:14

Modern English Version

The officers of the Israelites, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, and demanded, “Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as previously?”

Cross References

Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard service—in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. In all their service they made them serve with rigor.

Exodus 5:13

The taskmasters pushed them, saying, “Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, just as when there was straw.”

Exodus 5:15

Then the officers of the Israelites came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

Exodus 5:6

Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,

Isaiah 10:24

Therefore, thus says the Lord God of Hosts: O My people who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.