Exodus 5:15

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Job 3:18

Captives will relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their labor. They built for Pharaoh storage cities: Pithom and Rameses.

Exodus 5:14

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?”

Exodus 5:16

There is no straw being given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make brick.’ And behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.”