Exodus 5:13
King James Version (KJV)
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
In context
11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Exodus 5:13 in every translation
- 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!”
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
- 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.