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Exodus 5:15

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

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Exodus 5:15 in other translations

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

Exodus 5:15 · World English Bible

Exodus 5:15 in context

  1. 13And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
  2. 14And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and to-day, in making brick as heretofore?
  3. 15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
  4. 16There 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.
  5. 17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.