Keluaran 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!”

Keluaran 12:10

12:10 You must leave nothing until morning, but you must burn with fire whatever remains of it until morning.

Keluaran 16:28

16:28 So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse ³  to obey my commandments and my instructions?

[5:13]  ¹ tn Or “pressed.”

[5:13]  ² tn כַּלּוּ (kallu) is the Piel imperative; the verb means “to finish, complete” in the sense of filling up the quota.

[16:28]  ³ tn The verb is plural, and so it is addressed to the nation and not to Moses. The perfect tense in this sentence is the characteristic perfect, denoting action characteristic, or typical, of the past and the present.