So they set slave masters over them to afflict them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.
Exodus 5:10 - Tree of Life Version Then the slave masters of the people went out, along with their officers, and they spoke to the people saying: “This is what Pharaoh 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. |
So they set slave masters over them to afflict them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.
Then Adonai said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their slave masters, for I know their pains.
Go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, for there will be no reduction of your work.”
Then on the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters of the people and their foremen saying,
Let even heavier work be laid upon the men, so that they must labor, paying no attention to deceptive words.”
The burden concerning the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of trouble and anguish, in which are lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent, they are carrying their riches on the backs of young donkeys, their treasures on camel humps, to a people who cannot profit them.