出埃及记 5:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

督工們催著說：“你們的工作，每天的本分，要在當天完成，像以前有草的時候一樣。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
督 工 的 催 着 说 ： 你 们 一 天 当 完 一 天 的 工 ， 与 先 前 有 草 一 样 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ So the slave masters and foremen went to the Israelites and said, "This is what the king says: I will no longer give you straw. ¹¹ Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it. But you must make as many bricks as you made before." ¹² So the people went everywhere in Egypt looking for dry stalks to use for straw. ¹³ The slave masters kept forcing the people to work harder. They said, "You must make just as many bricks as you did when you were given straw." ¹⁴ The king's slave masters had made the Israelite foremen responsible for the work the people did. The Egyptian slave masters beat these men and asked them, "Why aren't you making as many bricks as you made in the past?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

daily tasks: Heb. a matter of a day in his day

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:6 - taskmasters Exodus 5:11 - not ought Ezra 3:4 - as the duty of every day required Job 39:7 - driver

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the taskmasters hasted them, Kept them tight and close to their work, and were urgent on them to make quick dispatch of it:

saying, fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw; they insisted upon it, that they did the same business at the brickkilns, made the same number of bricks every day, as they used to do when they had straw at hand. See Exodus 5:11.