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Exodus 5:15

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

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Exodus 5:15 in other translations

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

Exodus 5:15 · American Standard Version

Exodus 5:15 in context

  1. 13The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
  2. 14The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
  3. 15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
  4. 16No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”
  5. 17But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’