Exodus 5:13
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

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

King James Bible
And the taskmasters hasted [them], saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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