Their officers - Or scribes. They were Hebrews able to keep accounts in writing, appointed by the Egyptian superintendents, and responsible …

Taskmasters ... officers. —Three grades of officials are mentioned as employed in superintending the forced labours of the Hebrews…

And Pharaoh commanded. We shall more clearly perceive, as the narrative proceeds, that these taskmasters and officers were taken from amon…

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the
people
Who were Egyptians, …

God will own his people, though poor and despised, and will find a time to plead their cause. Pharaoh treated all he had heard with contempt. He ha…