Exodus 5:6
That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- taskmasters.{Nogesim,} literally, exactors, oppressors
- These taskmasters were Egyptians, (ch. 1:11,) but the officers were Hebrews. See ver. 14.
- Exodus 5:10, 13, 15, 19; Exodus 1:11; Proverbs 12:10
- Exodus 5:6
- officers.{Shoterim,} from the Arabic {saytara,} to overlook, superintend, seems to denote, as {musaytar} in Arabic also does, overseers, superintendents. They may have been somewhat like the chiefs of trades, who are found in every city in the East; where every trade has a head, who is entrusted with authority over them, and is in some measure answerable for them to Government. Compare ch. 2:14.
- Numbers 11:16; Deuteronomy 1:15; Deuteronomy 16:18; Joshua 8:33; Joshua 24:1, 4; 2 Chronicles 26:11