13The taskmasters were urgent saying, |Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!|


In Context

10 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, |This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you straw.

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 demanded, |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 Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:13And the taskmasters hasted [them,] saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:13The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, "Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:13And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:13And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13And the taskmasters urged them, saying, Fulfil your labours, the daily work, as when there was straw.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:13And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13And the task-masters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13and the exactors are making haste, saying, 'Complete your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there is straw.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:13And the taskmasters hurried them, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.