And they kept the festival of booths, as prescribed, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance, as required for each day,
Exodus 5:13 - New Revised Standard Version The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, the same daily assignment as when you were given 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. |
And they kept the festival of booths, as prescribed, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance, as required for each day,
It scorns the tumult of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.
Go and get straw yourselves, wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.’ ”
So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.
And the supervisors of the Israelites, 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?”
That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, as well as their supervisors,