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Exodus 5:13
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
King James Version
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
World English Bible
The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
American Standard Version
And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Geneva Bible 1599
And the taskemasters hasted them, saying, Finish your dayes worke euery dayes taske, as ye did when ye had strawe.
Darby Translation
And the taskmasters urged [them], saying, Fulfil your labours, the daily work, as when there was straw.
Young's Literal Translation
and the exactors are making haste, saying, 'Complete your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there is straw.'
Bible in Basic English
And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.
12So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
14Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”
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