Exodus 5:15 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁵ Then the Hebrew [47] foremen went to Pharaoh. They complained and said, “We are your servants. Why are you treating us like this?

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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

Even prisoners find relief in the grave;\par they don’t hear their guards\par yelling at 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 5:14

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 5:16

You won’t give us any straw, but you tell us to make as many bricks as before. And now our masters are beating us. Your people are wrong for doing this.”