Exodus 5:13

New International Reader's Version

Pharaoh’s slave drivers kept making the people work hard. They said, “Finish the work you are required to do each day. Make the same number of bricks you made when you had straw.”

Cross References

Ezra 3:4

Then they celebrated the Feast of Booths. They did it according to what is written in the Law. They sacrificed the number of burnt offerings required for each day.

Job 39:7

They laugh at all the noise in town. They do not hear the shouts of the donkey drivers.

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians put slave drivers over the people of Israel. The slave drivers treated them badly and made them work hard. The Israelites built the cities of Pithom and Rameses so Pharaoh could store things there.

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your own straw anywhere you can find it. But you still have to make the same number of bricks.’ ”

Exodus 5:12

So the people scattered all over Egypt. They went to gather any pieces of straw left in the fields.

Exodus 5:14

The slave drivers whipped the Israelite overseers they had appointed. The slave drivers asked, “Why haven’t you made the same number of bricks yesterday or today, just as before?”

Exodus 5:6

That same day Pharaoh gave orders to the slave drivers and the overseers in charge of the people.