Exodus 5:15

New International Reader's Version

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

Cross References

Job 3:18

Prisoners also enjoy peace there. They don’t hear a slave driver shouting at them anymore.

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 5:14

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 5:16

You didn’t give us any straw. But you told us, ‘Make bricks!’ We are being whipped. But it’s the fault of your own people.”