Exodus 5:13 - Easy To Read Version

¹³ The slave masters forced the people to work even harder. They forced the people to make as many bricks as before.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Finish your work, your daily quotas, as when there was straw.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

Common English Bible

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

¹³ 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.

Exodus 5:13 Tagairtí Cros

Ezra 3:4

Then they celebrated the Festival of Shelters {\cf2\super [11]} just like the Law \{of Moses\} said. They offered the right number of burnt offerings for each day of the festival.

Job 39:7

Wild donkeys laugh at the noisy towns.\par And no person can control them.\par

Exodus 1:11

The Egyptian people decided to make life hard for the people of Israel. So the Egyptians put slave masters over the people. These masters forced the Israelites to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses for the king. The king used these cities to store grain and other things.

Exodus 5:11

You must go and get the straw for yourselves. So go and find straw. But you must still make as many bricks as you made before.”

Exodus 5:12

So the people went everywhere in Egypt looking for straw.

Exodus 5:14

The Egyptian slave masters had chosen the Hebrew [46] foremen and had made them responsible for the work the people did. The Egyptian slave masters beat these foremen and said to them, “Why aren’t you making as many bricks as you made in the past? If you could do it then, you can do it now!”

Exodus 5:6

That same day, Pharaoh gave a command to make work harder for the people of Israel. Pharaoh said to the slave masters and Hebrew foremen,