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Exodus 5:13
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11 Go, get yourselves straw where you can find it; yet none of your work will be reduced.’ ”
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
13 And the taskmasters forced them to hurry, saying, “Fulfill your work, your daily quota, as when there was straw.”
14 Also the aofficers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were bbeaten and were asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as before?”  
15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why are you dealing thus with your servants?
16 There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make brick!’ And indeed your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.”
17 But he said, “You are idle! Idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’
18 Therefore go now and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks.”
19 And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble after it was said, “You shall not reduce any bricks from your daily quota.”
20 Then, as they came out from Pharaoh, they met Moses and Aaron who stood there to meet them.
21 aAnd they said to them, “Let the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made1 us abhorrent in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”  
Verse Comparison: Exodus 5:13

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American Standard Version
And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, `your' daily tasks, as when there was straw.

Amplified® Bible
And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Finish your work, your daily quotas, as when there was straw.

Contemporary English Version
But the slave bosses were hard on them and kept saying, "Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw."

Darby English Version
And the taskmasters urged [them], saying, Fulfil your labours, the daily work, as when there was straw.

Good News Bible
The slave drivers kept trying to force them to make the same number of bricks every day as they had made when they were given straw.

King James Version
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

New American Standard Bible
The taskmasters pressed them, saying, "Complete your work quota, {your} daily amount, just as when you had straw."

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

New King James Version
And the taskmasters forced them to hurry, saying, “Fulfill your work, your daily quota, as when there was straw.”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
The taskmasters pressed them, saying, "Complete your work quota, your daily amount, just as when you had straw."

Revised Standard Version
The taskmasters were urgent, saying, "Complete your work, your daily task, as when there was straw."

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.'

New English Translation
The slave masters were pressuring1 them, saying, “Complete2 your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”


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