Exodus 5:13

New English Translation

The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, “Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

Cross References

Ezra 3:4

They observed the Festival of Temporary Shelters as required and offered the proper number of daily burnt offerings according to the requirement for each day.

Job 39:7

It scorns the tumult in the town; it does not hear the shouts of a driver.

Exodus 1:11

So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 5:11

You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

Exodus 5:12

So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

Exodus 5:14

The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked, “Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past – both yesterday and today?”

Exodus 5:6

That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people: