Exodus 5:13
11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
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?
15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
- KJV
- And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
- WEB
- The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
- ASV
- And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.
- DARBY
- And the taskmasters urged [them], saying, Fulfil your labours, the daily work, as when there was straw.
- BLB
- And the taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your⁺ works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there was the straw.”
- ÅB
- Men arbeidsfogdene drev på og sa: Gjør deres arbeid ferdig, fullt dagsverk for hver dag, slik som dengang dere hadde halm.
- OTB
- Oppsynsmennene presset dem og sa: «Fullfør deres daglige arbeidskvote, akkurat som da dere hadde halm.»
- B1930
- Men arbeidsfogdene drev på og sa: Gjør eders arbeid ferdig, fullt dagsverk for hver dag, likesom dengang I hadde halm.