Exodus 5:13 meaning and explanation
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
Exodus 5:13, Berean Standard Bible
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Pharaoh has just ordered that Israel gather their own straw while still meeting the same daily brick quota, and here his taskmasters enforce that order. The verse sits in the first confrontation between Moses and Pharaoh, where the demand to worship in the wilderness is answered with harsher labor.
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