They also kept the Feast of Sukkot as it is written and offered the prescribed number of daily burnt offerings according to the requirement for each day.
Exodus 5:13 - Tree of Life Version But the slave masters pressured, saying, “Fulfill your work, your daily amount, just 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 also kept the Feast of Sukkot as it is written and offered the prescribed number of daily burnt offerings according to the requirement for each day.
It scorns the commotion in the town; it does not hear the taskmaster’s shouts.
So they set slave masters over them to afflict them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.
Go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, for there will be no reduction of your work.”
So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
Moreover the foremen of Bnei-Yisrael, whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them, were beaten and asked, “Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks, both yesterday and today like before?”
Then on the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters of the people and their foremen saying,