Exodus 5:13

5:13 The slave masters were pressuring ¹  them, saying, “Complete ²  your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

Exodus 5:17

5:17 But Pharaoh replied, ³  “You are slackers! Slackers! ⁴  That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

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¹ tn Or “pressed.”

² tn כַּלּוּ (kallu) is the Piel imperative; the verb means “to finish, complete” in the sense of filling up the quota.

³ tn Heb “And he said.”

⁴ tn Or “loafers.” The form נִרְפִּים (nirpim) is derived from the verb רָפָה (rafah), meaning “to be weak, to let oneself go.”