Exodus 5:13
World English Bible (WEB)
The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
In context
11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
Exodus 5:13 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
- KJV King James Version
- And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, 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.