Exodus 5:13

New American Bible - revised edition

while the taskmasters kept driving them on, saying, “Finish your work, the same daily amount as when the straw was supplied to you.”

Cross References

Ezra 3:4

They also kept the feast of Booths in the manner prescribed, and they offered the daily burnt offerings in the proper number required for each day.

Job 39:7

He scoffs at the uproar of the city, hears no shouts of a driver.

Exodus 1:11

Accordingly, they set supervisors over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. Thus they had to build for Pharaoh the garrison cities of Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your own straw from wherever you can find it. But there will not be the slightest reduction in your work.’”

Exodus 5:12

The people, then, scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw,

Exodus 5:14

The Israelite foremen, whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had placed over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why have you not completed your prescribed amount of bricks yesterday and today, as before?” Complaint of the Foremen.

Exodus 5:6

That very day Pharaoh gave the taskmasters of the people and their foremen this order: