Exodus 5:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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?”

Cross References

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

Exodus 5:13

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

Exodus 5:15

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

Exodus 5:6

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

Isaiah 10:24

Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O my people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they beat you with a rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.