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Exodus 5:6

The same day Pharaoh enjoined the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”

7“You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:7Adonai said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt [Abode of slavery], and have sh'ma ·heard obeyed· their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Exodus 5:13The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”

Numbers 11:16Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel [God prevails], whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

Deuteronomy 16:18+ 16:18. Deut 16:18 (#9.567): T. To appoint judges and officers for every tribe in all your cities / R. Appoint judges You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Adonai your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous 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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