Exodus 5:13

13 And the slave drivers [were] insisting, saying, "Finish your work {for each day} on its day, as {when there was straw}."

Exodus 5:13 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 5:13

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 ) .

Exodus 5:13 In-Context

11 You go, get straw for yourselves from whatever you find because not a thing is being reduced from your work.'"

12 And the people spread out in all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for the straw.

13 And the slave drivers [were] insisting, saying, "Finish your work {for each day} on its day, as {when there was straw}."

14 And the foremen of the {Israelites}, whom Pharaoh's slave drivers had appointed over them, were beaten [by men who were] saying, "Why have you not completed your portion of brickmaking {as before, both yesterday and today}?"

15 And the foremen of the {Israelites} came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you treat your servants like this?

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "a thing of a day"
• [b]. Literally "in the being of the straw"