They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and [offered] the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
Exodus 5:13 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The taskmasters were urgent saying, *Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Finish your work, your daily quotas, as when there was straw. American Standard Version (1901) And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. Common English Bible The slave masters drove them hard and said, “Make sure you make the same daily quota as when you had the straw.” Catholic Public Domain Version Likewise, the overseers of the works pressured them, saying: "Complete your work each day, just as you were accustomed to do before, when straw was given to you." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfill your work every day as before you were wont to do when straw was given you. |
They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and [offered] the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Par`oh: Pitom and Ra`meses.
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.*
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
The officers of the children of Yisra'el, whom Par`oh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, *Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?*
The same day Par`oh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,