◄ Exodus 5:10 ►
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Good News Translation
The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites, "The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw.

New Revised Standard Version
So the taskmasters and the supervisors of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw.

Contemporary English Version
The slave bosses and the men in charge of the slaves went out and told them, "The king says he will not give you any more straw.

New American Bible
So the taskmasters of the people and their foremen went out and told the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not provide you with straw.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;

taskmasters

Exodus 1:11 Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.

Proverbs 29:12 A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

Context
Bricks and Straw
…9Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that they may not regard lying words. 10And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;11Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.…
Cross References
Exodus 1:11
Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.

Exodus 3:7
And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;

Exodus 5:6
Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the task-masters of the people, saying:

Exodus 5:9
Let them be oppressed with works, and let them fulfil them; that they may not regard lying words.

Exodus 5:11
Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.

Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and distress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the flying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not be able to profit them.

Exodus 5:9
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