Exodus 5:15

New Century Version

Then the Israelite foremen went to the king and complained, “Why are you treating us, your servants, this way?

Cross References

Job 3:18

In the grave there is rest for the captives who no longer hear the shout of the slave driver.

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 5:14

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 5:16

You give us no straw, but we are commanded to make bricks. Our slave masters beat us, but it is your own people’s fault.”