Exodus 5:15

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Then the Israelite supervisors came to Pharaoh and cried, “Why do you treat your servants like this?

Cross References

Job 3:18

There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.

Exodus 5:14

And the supervisors of the Israelites, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why did you not finish the required quantity of bricks yesterday and today, as you did before?”

Exodus 5:16

No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look how your servants are beaten! You are unjust to your own people.”