Exodus 5:10
¶ 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.
¶ And the taske-masters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not giue you straw.
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- Exodus 1:11Rank 1 from verse 10
- Exodus 3:7Rank 2 from verse 10
7¶ And 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;
7¶ And the LORD said, I haue surely seene the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and haue heard their crie, by reason of their taske-masters: for I know their sorrowes,
- Proverbs 29:12Rank 3 from verse 10
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Exodus 5:10
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taskmasters
Overseers who impose, assign, and exact labor or tasks.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
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Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
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The past tense of speak: uttered or expressed words, addressed someone, or communicated a matter in words.
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The royal title used for the king of Egypt, applied to successive Egyptian rulers in the biblical record.
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To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.
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Sense 1: The dry stalks of grain, used for fodder or brickmaking. Sense 2: Figuratively, something weak, insubstantial, or easily trampled.
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9Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
9†Let there more worke be layde vpon the men, that they may labour therein, and let them not regard vaine wordes.
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.
10¶ And the taske-masters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not giue you straw.
Selected passage11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
11Goe ye, get you straw where you can find it: yet not ought of your worke shall be diminished.