World English Bible
"The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!""
— Exodus 5:13, World English Bible
“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 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.”
The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you straw.
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'"
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"
The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?
No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."