Exodus 5:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁵ So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: ‘Why are you treating your servants this way?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Then the Hebrew foremen came to Pharaoh and cried, Why do you deal like this with your servants?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Then the Israelite supervisors came and pleaded to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And the first among the sons of Israel came, and they cried out to Pharaoh, saying: "Why do act against your servants in this way?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants?

Exodus 5:15 Tagairtí Cros

Job 3:18

The captives are completely at rest; they do not hear a taskmaster’s voice.

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labour.  They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities  for Pharaoh.

Exodus 5:14

Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s slave drivers had set over the people, were beaten  and asked, ‘Why haven’t you finished making your prescribed number of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before? ’

Exodus 5:16

No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, “Make bricks! ” Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault.’