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Exodus 5:14

King James Version (KJV)

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Exodus 5:14

Verse 14 of 23

Scripture focus

And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

Exodus 5:14 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Exodus 5:14

Theological / Devotional

The officers. The Egyptian overseers are regularly depicted with sticks in their hands. One picture from a temple wall of Thebes of the time of Thutmose III shows a taskmaster with a raised stick in his hand, saying to the workmen, “The stick is in my hand; be not lazy.” When the new directive of the king was enforced, it soon became impossible for the Israelites to produce the required number of bricks. Consequently, the Hebrew officers whose business it was to give a daily account of the work done were punished by their Egyptian overlords.

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