Exodus 5:14

New International Reader's Version

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?”

Cross References

Exodus 1:14

The people suffered because of their hard labor. The slave drivers forced them to work with bricks and mud. And they made them do all kinds of work in the fields. The Egyptians didn’t show them any pity at all. They made them work very hard.

Exodus 5:13

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.”

Exodus 5:15

Then the Israelite overseers appealed to Pharaoh. They asked, “Why have you treated us like this?

Exodus 5:6

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

Isaiah 10:24

The Lord rules over all. The Lord says, “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian army. They beat you with rods. They lift up war clubs against you, just as the Egyptians did.