Exodus 5:13
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And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your work every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you.

daily tasks.

Context
Bricks and Straw
12And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw. 13And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your work every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you.14And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before?…
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 5:6
Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the task-masters of the people, saying:

Exodus 5:12
And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.

Exodus 5:14
And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before?

Lexicon
The taskmasters
וְהַנֹּגְשִׂ֖ים (wə·han·nō·ḡə·śîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5065: To drive, to tax, harass, tyrannize

kept pressing them,
אָצִ֣ים (’ā·ṣîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 213: To press, to be close, hurry, withdraw

saying,
לֵאמֹ֑ר (lê·mōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“Fulfill
כַּלּ֤וּ (kal·lū)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

your quota
דְּבַר־ (də·ḇar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

each day,
י֣וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

just as you did when
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

straw
הַתֶּֽבֶן׃ (hat·te·ḇen)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8401: Material, refuse haum, stalks of grain

was provided.”
בִּהְי֥וֹת (bih·yō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be


Additional Translations
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”And the taskmasters hurried them, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

and the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfil your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given you.

And the taskmasters urged [them], saying, Fulfil your labours, the daily work, as when there was straw.

And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

And the task-masters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"

and the exactors are making haste, saying, 'Complete your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there is straw.'
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