Exodus 5:14

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Flagellatique sunt praefecti filiorum Israel, quos constituerant super eos exactores pharaonis dicentes: "Quare non implestis mensuram laterum sicut prius, nec heri nec hodie?".

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et facti sunt omnes dies Cainan nongenti decem anni, et mortuus est.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Flagellatique sunt qui præerant operibus filiorum Israël, ab exactoribus Pharaonis, dicentibus: Quare non impletis mensuram laterum sicut prius, nec heri, nec hodie?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 2:11 - burdens Exodus 5:6 - taskmasters Exodus 5:11 - not ought Leviticus 25:43 - rule Numbers 20:15 - vexed us Isaiah 3:15 - ye beat

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them,.... This makes it clear, not only that the taskmasters and officers were different persons, but that the one were Egyptians appointed by Pharaoh, and the other were Israelites, of the better sort of them, who were set over the poorer sort by the taskmasters, to look after them, and take an account of their work, and the tale of their bricks, and give it in to the taskmasters; now these

were beaten by the taskmasters, either with a cane, stick, or cudgel, or with whips and scourges, because there was a deficiency in their accounts, and the full tale of bricks was not given in:

[and] demanded, wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as heretofore? the first day they were deficient they took no notice of it, did not call them to an account for it, but this being the case the second day, they not only expostulated with them about it, but beat them for it, which was hard usage. They had no need to ask them the reason of it, which they knew very well, and must be sensible that the men could not do the same work, and be obliged to spend part of their time in going about for straw or stubble; or the same number of men make the same tale of bricks, when some of them were employed to get straw for the rest, and to beat those officers for a deficiency through such means was cruel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 5:14. And the officers - were beaten — Probably bastinadoed; for this is the common punishment in Egypt to the present day for minor offences. The manner of it is this: the culprit lies on his belly, his legs being turned up behind erect, and the executioner gives him so many blows on the soles of the feet with a stick. This is a very severe punishment, the sufferer not being able to walk for many weeks after, and some are lamed by it through the whole of their lives.