And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
Parallel translations
- WEB The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
- BSB That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:
- NKJV So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
- NASB So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters over the people and their foremen, saying,
- NLT That same day Pharaoh sent this order to the Egyptian slave drivers and the Israelite foremen:
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Quick answer
That same day Pharaoh commands the taskmasters and officers with new orders. His response to God's demand is to increase the oppression.
Overview
Rather than yielding, Pharaoh acts immediately to tighten his grip, instructing the slave-drivers and the Israelite foremen. The speed of his retaliation shows the depth of his defiance. This sets in motion the cruel policy of the following verses, where opposition to God brings, in the short term, intensified suffering for His people.
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- Exod 5:19And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
- Exod 5:10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
- Josh 8:33And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
- Exod 3:7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
- Exod 1:11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Num 11:16And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
- Exod 5:13–15And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
- Josh 24:4And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
- Deut 16:18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
- Deut 1:15So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
- 2 Chr 26:11Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.
- Prov 12:10A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
- Josh 24:1And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
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