Exodus 5:14

New English Translation

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?”

Cross References

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

Exodus 5:13

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

Exodus 5:15

The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you treating your servants this way?

Exodus 5:6

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

Isaiah 10:24

So here is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says: “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, even though they beat you with a club and lift their cudgel against you as Egypt did.