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13 The taskmasters pressured them by saying, “Finish your work—each day’s quota[a]—just as when you were given straw.”[b]

14 The Israeli supervisors whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had appointed over them were beaten and told,[c] “Why didn’t you, both yesterday and today, fulfill[d] your quota[e] for making bricks as before?”

The Israelis’ Appeal Rejected by Pharaoh

15 The Israeli supervisors came and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you doing this to us?[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 5:13 Lit. matter
  2. Exodus 5:13 Lit. when there was straw
  3. Exodus 5:14 Lit. saying
  4. Exodus 5:14 Lit. complete
  5. Exodus 5:14 Lit. prescribed amount
  6. Exodus 5:15 Lit. your servants; and so throughout the book