Exodus 5:6 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 5:6

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:

YLT

And Pharaoh commandeth, on that day, the exactors among the people and its authorities, saying,

DBT

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

About this book

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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15 verses on the floor

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.
Exodus 5:19
And 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.
1 Kings 13:8
And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
Joshua 8:33
And 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.
Exodus 1:11
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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His suggestions were very unreasonable. (1.) That the people were idle, and that therefore they talked of going to sacrifice. The cities they built for Pharaoh, and the other fruit of their labours, were witnesses for them that they were not idle; yet he thus basely misrepresents them, that he might have a pretence to increase their burdens.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EXO 5:6EXO 1:11 EXO 3:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EXO 5:6EXO 1:11 GEN 15:13
EXO 5:6JOS 8:33 DEU 11:29
EXO 5:6EXO 1:11 EXO 2:11
EXO 5:6EXO 1:11 GEN 47:11
EXO 5:6JOS 8:33 DEU 31:12
EXO 5:6DEU 16:18 1CH 23:4
EXO 5:6JOS 8:33 DEU 27:11-14

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