Exodus 5:6

And Pharoh that day commanded the masters of the people and the overseers, saying,

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

In Context

5And Pharoh said, Behold now, the people of the land are many, and you make them relax from their employment.

7You shall not continue (add) to give straw to the people to cast bricks, as heretofore; let them go and collect straw for themselves;

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Cross References

Exodus 3:7And the Lord said, The bondage of My people who is in Mizraim is verily disclosed before Me, and before Me is heard their cry on account of their toils; for their afflictions are disclosed before me;

Exodus 5:13And the masters were urgent, saying, Fulfil your work, the matter of a day in a day, as you did when straw was given to you.

Numbers 11:16And the Lord said to Mosheh, Gather unto Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be elders of the people, and the overseers thereof, and bring them to the tabernacle of ordinance, and let them stand there with thee;

Deuteronomy 16:18Judges and officers shalt thou appoint to thee in all thy cities which the Lord thy God will give thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with true judgment.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 5:4-10

3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. 4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. 5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. 6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the… Read the whole commentary →

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