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Exodus 5

Exodus 5:13

Bricks and Straw · Exodus 5:6–14
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Translations

Modern
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
Traditional
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Literal
And the taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there was the straw.”
Latin
Præfecti quoque operum instabant, dicentes: Complete opus vestrum quotidie, ut prius facere solebatis quando dabantur vobis paleæ.

Original

Hebrew
English
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

Notes

Exodus 5:6–14

Pharaoh increased the workload to punish their disobedience. He thought they had too much free time (5:8). He could not imagine a god revealing himself outside the royal worship system. He believed they invented their unusual religious ideas instead of working (see also 5:17).

Exodus 5:1–14

Pharaoh not only rejected the request of Moses to release the Hebrew slaves, he also retaliated by making their work harder. The arrival of the rescuer had actually made the situation worse.

Exodus 4:29–7:7

In this section, the Lord promised to rescue the Israelites. He said that he would bring them out of slavery.

At first, the people responded in a positive way. They believed what God said. However, later they faced a crisis of faith. They began to doubt God’s promise and struggled to trust him.

Glossary

Aaron Book of Exodus Brick, Brick Kiln Deuteronomy, Book of Taskmaster

Topics

Brick: Made by Israelites Cruelty: Egyptians to the Israelites Egypt: Israel in Pharaoh Increases Their Affliction Servant: Israelites Taskmasters: General Scriptures Concerning