Exodus 5:14

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today, as hitherto?”

Cross References

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.

Exodus 5:13

The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.”

Exodus 5:15

Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you deal thus with your servants?

Exodus 5:6

The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,

Isaiah 10:24

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