Exodus 5:14

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Exodus 1:14

making life bitter for them with hard labor, at mortar and brick and all kinds of field work—cruelly oppressed in all their labor. Command to the Midwives.

Exodus 5:13

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

Exodus 5:15

Then the Israelite foremen came and cried out to Pharaoh: “Why do you treat your servants in this manner?

Exodus 5:6

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

Isaiah 10:24

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: My people, who dwell in Zion, do not fear the Assyrian, though he strikes you with a rod, and raises his staff against you as did the Egyptians.