Exodus 5:15
13 The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
14 Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”
So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
16 No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
17 “You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
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
- So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
- KJV
- Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
- WEB
- Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
- ASV
- Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
- DARBY
- Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why dost thou deal thus with thy bondmen?
- BLB
- And the officers of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why are you doing this to your servants?
- ÅB
- Da gikk oppsynsmennene over Israels barn til Farao og klaget høylydt for ham og sa: Hvorfor gjør du slik med dine tjenere?
- OTB
- Da gikk de israelittiske formennene og bønnfalt farao: «Hvorfor behandler du dine tjenere på denne måten?
- B1930
- Da gikk opsynsmennene over Israels barn til Farao og klaget høilydt for ham og sa: Hvorfor gjør du således med dine tjenere?