Exodus 5:13
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
In context
11 Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
12 So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13 The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
14 Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”
15 So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
Exodus 5:13 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
- KJV King James Version
- And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
- WEB World English Bible
- The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and the exactors are making haste, saying, 'Complete your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there is straw.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the taskmasters urged [them], saying, Fulfil your labours, the daily work, as when there was straw.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the task-masters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.