Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And the taskmasters urged them, saying, Fulfil your labours, the daily work, as when there was straw.
New American Standard Bible
The taskmasters pressed them, saying, “Complete your
King James Version
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Holman Bible
The overseers insisted, “Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
International Standard Version
The taskmasters pressured them by saying, "Finish your work each day's quota just as when you were given straw."
A Conservative Version
And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfill your works, [your] daily tasks, 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.
Amplified
And the taskmasters pressured them, saying, “Finish your work, [fulfill] your daily quotas, just as when there was straw [given to you].”
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And the urgers on will hasten them, saying, Complete your work; the word of a day, in its day, as in there being straw.
King James 2000
And the taskmasters pushed them, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the slave drivers [were] insisting, saying, "Finish your work {for each day} on its day, as {when there was straw}."
Modern King James verseion
And the taskmasters hurried them, saying, Finish your works, the thing of a day, just as when there was straw.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the taskmasters hasted them forward, saying, "Fulfill your work day by day, even as when straw was given you."
NET Bible
The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, "Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!"
New Heart English Bible
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, "Fulfill your work quota, your daily amount, as when there was straw."
The Emphasized Bible
the taskmasters, meanwhile, being urgent saying, - Complete your works, The task of a day, in its day, as when the straw was provided.
Webster
And the task-masters hastened them, saying, Fulfill 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!"
Youngs 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.'
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 5:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Further Oppression Of Israel
12 And the people were scattered abroad throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13 And the taskmasters urged them, saying, Fulfil your labours, the daily work, 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 it was said, Why have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and to-day, as heretofore?