Exodus 5:13

13 And the taskmasters hastened them, saying, "Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, 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 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it; yet not any of your work shall be diminished.'"

12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

13 And the taskmasters hastened them, saying, "Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw."

14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were demanded, "Why have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as heretofore?"

15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, "Why dealest thou thus with thy servants?