Exodus 5:13

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

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.