Exodus 5:10

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says: "I will not give you straw. ¹¹ Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished." ¹² So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. ¹³ The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!" ¹⁴ The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

taskmasters: Exodus 1:11, Proverbs 29:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:6 - taskmasters Isaiah 30:6 - into the land

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the taskmasters of the people went out,.... From the presence of Pharaoh, out of his court, to the respective places where they were set to see that the Israelites did their work:

and their officers; the officers of the Israelites, who were under the taskmasters, and answerable to them for the work of the people, and their tale of bricks:

and they spake to the people, saying, thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw; that is, any longer, as he had used to do.