Exodus 5:15

In 11 translations

BSB

So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

And the authorities of the sons of Israel come in and cry to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you do thus to your servants?

YLT

And the authorities of the sons of Israel come in and cry unto Pharaoh, saying, 'Why dost thou thus to thy servants?

DBY

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why dost thou deal thus with thy bondmen?

DRC

And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants?

GNV

Then the officers of the children of Israel came, and cryed vnto Pharaoh, saying, Wherfore dealest thou thus with thy seruants?

JPS

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

LXXE

And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharao, saying, Why dost thou act thus to thy servants?

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WLC

וַיָּבֹ֗אוּ שֹֽׁטְרֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיִּצְעֲק֥וּ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר לָ֧מָּה תַעֲשֶׂ֦ה כֹ֖ה לַעֲבָדֶֽיךָ׃

LXX-Br

Εἰσελθόντες δὲ οἱ γραμματεῖς τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ κατεβόησαν πρὸς Φαραὼ, λέγοντες, ἱνατί σὺ οὕτως ποιεῖς τοῖς σοῖς οἰκέταις;

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