Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Par`oh: Pitom and Ra`meses.
Exodus 5:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Par`oh says: *I will not give you straw. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they said to the people, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. American Standard Version (1901) And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. Common English Bible So the people’s slave masters and supervisors came out and spoke to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says, ‘I’m not giving you straw anymore. Catholic Public Domain Version And so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: "Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao, I allow you no straw. |
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Par`oh: Pitom and Ra`meses.
The LORD said, *I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.*
The same day Par`oh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words.*
The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.