Exodus 5:13

New Century Version

The slave masters kept forcing the people to work harder. They said, “You must make just as many bricks as you did when you were given straw.”

Cross References

Ezra 3:4

Then, to obey what was written, they celebrated the Feast of Shelters. They offered the right number of sacrifices for each day of the festival.

Job 39:7

The wild donkey laughs at the confusion in the city, and it does not hear the drivers shout.

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians made life hard for the Israelites. They put slave masters over them, who forced the Israelites to build the cities Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it. But you must make as many bricks as you made before.”

Exodus 5:12

So the people went everywhere in Egypt looking for dry stalks to use for straw.

Exodus 5:14

The king’s slave masters had made the Israelite foremen responsible for the work the people did. The Egyptian slave masters beat these men and asked them, “Why aren’t you making as many bricks as you made in the past?”

Exodus 5:6

That same day the king gave a command to the slave masters and foremen.