Catholic Public Domain Version
"Likewise, the overseers of the works pressured them, saying: “Complete your work each day, just as you were accustomed to do before, when straw was given to you.” "
— Exodus 5:13, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.”
“And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. ”
“The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"”
“The slave masters were pressuring them, saying,“Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!””
“And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your work every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you.”
“And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.”
“And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.”
And so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: “Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff.
Go, and collect it wherever you are able to find it. Neither will anything of your work be diminished.”
And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw.
Likewise, the overseers of the works pressured them, saying: “Complete your work each day, just as you were accustomed to do before, when straw was given to you.”
And those who were first in the works of the sons of Israel were scourged by Pharaoh’s taskmasters, saying: “Why have you not filled the quota of bricks, neither yesterday, nor today, just as before?”
And the first among the sons of Israel came, and they cried out to Pharaoh, saying: “Why do act against your servants in this way?
Straw is not given to us, and yet the same amount of bricks is commanded. So we, your servants, are cut up by scourging, and injustice is done against your people.”