Exodus 5:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The taskmasters urged them on, saying, “Complete your work, the same daily assignment as when you were given straw.”

Cross References

Ezra 3:4

And they kept the Festival of Booths, as prescribed, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance, as required for each day,

Job 39:7

It scorns the tumult of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.

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 5:11

Go and get straw yourselves, wherever you can find it, but your work will not be lessened in the least.”

Exodus 5:12

So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Exodus 5:14

And the Israelite supervisors 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 5:6

That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, as well as their supervisors,