Exodus 5:13

Bricks and Straw

12So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.13The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

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Berean Standard Bible
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
American Standard Version (1901)
And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Bible in Basic English
And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
And 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.
Free Bible Version
The slave drivers kept on forcing them, saying, “You still have to do the same work as you did when you had straw provided!”
Geneva Bible 1599
And the taskemasters hasted them, saying, Finish your dayes worke euery dayes taske, as ye did when ye had strawe.
King James (Authorized) Version
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
One Unity Resource Bible
The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
Translation for Translators
The slave bosses kept telling them insistently, “Finish the work you are required to do each day, making the same amount of bricks as you did before, when we gave you straw!”
Unlocked Literal Bible
The taskmasters kept urging them and saying, “Finish your work, just as when straw was given to you.”
Noah Webster Bible
And the task-masters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
World English Bible
The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, 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.'