Exodus 5:13

The Scriptures 1998

And the slave-drivers were hurrying them on, saying, “Complete your work, your daily amount, as when there was straw.”

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So they set slave-masters over them to afflict them with their burdens, and they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raʽ

And the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen, saying,

And the people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim – to gather stubble for straw.

Also the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕ

‘Go, take straw for yourselves, wherever you find it, for your work shall not be diminished.’ ”

And they performed the Festival of Booths, as it is written, and the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the right-ruling for each day,

He laughs at the commotion of the city; he does not hear the shouts of the driver.