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Exodus 5:10 KJV
Exodus · chapter 5 · verse 10
And 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.Exodus 5:10 · King James Version
Exodus 5:10 in context
8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
9Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
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.
11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- taskmastersnâgasto driveH5065 →
- officersshôṭêrproperly, a scribeH7860 →
- PharaohParʻôhParoh, a general title of Egyptian kingsH6547 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- spakeʼâmarto sayH559 →
- givenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
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Pharaoh's orders are here put in execution; straw is denied, and yet the work not diminished. 1. The Egyptian task-masters were very severe. Pharaoh having decreed unrighteous decrees, the task-masters were ready to write the grievousness that he had prescribed, Isa 10:1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-14