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The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"
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The Reality of Oppression
Commentators note that the scene in this verse is historically accurate. Egyptian monuments depict taskmasters with sticks, pushing foreign laborers and telling them to 'Work without faintness.' This grounds the biblical account in the real, brutal suffering experienced by the Israelites under their oppressors.
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Exodus
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19th Century
Anglican
The taskmasters hasted them. —The Egyptian monuments show us foreign labourers engaged in brick-making under Egyptian ove…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the taskmasters hastened them , Kept them tight and close to their work, and were urgent on them to make quick d…
Presbyterian
The Egyptian taskmasters were very severe. See what need we have to pray that we may be delivered from wicked men. The foremen justly complained to…
