Exodus 5:14

And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

Cross-references

Exodus 5:6 records Pharaoh's command to taskmasters and foremen — here the foremen suffer the consequences of that order.

Exodus 5:11 imposes the impossible demand of gathering straw themselves — leading directly to the foremen's beating here.

Leviticus 25:43 prohibits ruling harshly over a fellow Israelite — exactly what the Egyptian taskmasters do here.

Numbers 20:15 summarizes the Egyptians' harsh treatment of Israel — which is exemplified by the beating of foremen here.

Isaiah 3:15 rebukes those who crush and grind the poor — reflecting the same kind of oppression the foremen suffer here.