Exodus 5:13
Strong's Lexicon
The taskmasters
וְהַנֹּגְשִׂ֖ים (wə·han·nō·ḡə·śîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5065: 1) to press, drive, oppress, exact, exert demanding pressure 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to press, drive 1a2) to exact 1a3) driver, taskmaster, ruler, oppressor, tyrant, lord, exactor of tribute (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be hard pressed

kept pressing them,
אָצִ֣ים (’ā·ṣîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 213: 1) to press, be pressed, make haste, urge, be narrow 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to press, hasten 1a2) to be pressed, confined, narrow 1a3) to hasten, make haste 1a4) be narrow 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to urge, insist 1b2) to hasten

saying,
לֵאמֹ֑ר (lê·mōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 559: 1) to say, speak, utter 1a) (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend 1b) (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called 1c) (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly 1d) (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch

“Fulfill
כַּלּ֤וּ (kal·lū)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3615: 1) to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be complete, be at an end 1a2) to be completed, be finished 1a3) to be accomplished, be fulfilled 1a4) to be determined, be plotted (bad sense) 1a5) to be spent, be used up 1a6) to waste away, be exhausted, fail 1a7) to come to an end, vanish, perish, be destroyed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to complete, bring to an end, finish 1b2) to complete (a period of time) 1b3) to finish (doing a thing) 1b4) to make an end, end 1b5) to accomplish, fulfil, bring to pass 1b6) to accomplish, determine (in thought) 1b7) to put an end to, cause to cease 1b8) to cause to fail, exhaust, use up, spend 1b9) to destroy, exterminate 1c) (Pual) to be finished, be ended, be completed

your quota
דְּבַר־ (də·ḇar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1697: 1) speech, word, speaking, thing 1a) speech 1b) saying, utterance 1c) word, words 1d) business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner (by extension)

מַעֲשֵׂיכֶם֙ (ma·‘ă·śê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4639: 1) deed, work 1a) deed, thing done, act 1b) work, labour 1c) business, pursuit 1d) undertaking, enterprise 1e) achievement 1f) deeds, works (of deliverance and judgment) 1g) work, thing made 1h) work (of God) 1i) product

each day
י֣וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow

בְּיוֹמ֔וֹ (bə·yō·w·mōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow

just as you did when
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: 1) (relative part.) 1a) which, who 1b) that which 2) (conj) 2a) that (in obj clause) 2b) when 2c) since 2d) as 2e) conditional if

straw
הַתֶּֽבֶן׃ (hat·te·ḇen)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8401: 1) straw, stubble 1a) as building material 1b) as fodder for livestock

was provided.”
בִּהְי֥וֹת (bih·yō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

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.’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The overseers insisted, “ Finish your assigned work each day , just as you did when straw was provided.”

New American Standard Bible
The taskmasters pressed them, saying, "Complete your work quota, [your] daily amount, just as when you had straw."

King James Bible
And the taskmasters hasted [them], saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, "Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw."

New Living Translation
Meanwhile, the Egyptian slave drivers continued to push hard. "Meet your daily quota of bricks, just as you did when we provided you with straw!" they demanded.

English Standard Version
The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.”

New American Standard Bible
The taskmasters pressed them, saying, "Complete your work quota, your daily amount, just as when you had straw."

King James Bible
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

Holman Christian Standard 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."

NET Bible
The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, "Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!"

American Standard Version
And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

English Revised Version
And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, 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.'
















Cross References
Exodus 1:11
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 5:6
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

Exodus 5:12
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

Exodus 5:14
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

Exodus 1:1
Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

Exodus 5:11
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

Exodus 5:10
And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

Exodus 5:15
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

Exodus 5:16
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
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