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

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

  • KJV King James Version

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

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

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

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Cross-references (13)

Passages linked to Exodus 5:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Exodus 5:10 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.
  • Exodus 5:19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”
  • Exodus 1:11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
  • Exodus 3:7 Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Exodus 5:13-15 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!” The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?” Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
  • Numbers 11:16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, 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 1:15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
  • Deuteronomy 16:18 You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
  • Joshua 8:33 All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
  • Joshua 24:4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
  • 2 Chronicles 26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.
  • Joshua 24:1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
  • Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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Explain this verse (15 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which were of the Israelites, and had charge to…

Which were of the Israelites, and had charge to see them do their work.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 5:6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain task-masters were Egyptians, and the
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The task-masters, were Egyptians, the officers were Israelites employed…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. The task-masters of the people and their…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Their officers - Or scribes. Hebrews able to keep…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Overseers, natives of Egypt, who had under them some…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Pharaoh commanded--It was a natural consequence of the high…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6-9. Increase of the oppression is the fierce and…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. the taskmasters] i.e. as in Exo_3:7, the Egyptian…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) Taskmasters . . . officers.—Three grades of officials…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 6-9. Rulers are not always content simply to…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Egyptians whose job was to force the Israelites to…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 5:6-14 Pharaoh made the work harder in retaliation for…

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