Exodus 5:6-8

Geneva⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ Therefore Pharaoh gaue commandement the same day vnto the taskemasters of the people, and to their officers, saying, ⁷ Ye shall giue the people no more strawe, to make bricke ( as in time past) but let them goe and gather them strawe them selues: ⁸ Notwithstanding lay vpon them the nober of bricke, which they made in time past, diminish nothing thereof: for they be idle, therefore they crie, saying, Let vs go to offer sacrifice vnto our God.

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taskmasters.{Nogesim,} literally, exactors, oppressors. These taskmasters were Egyptians, (ch. 1:11,) but the officers were Hebrews. See ver. 14.
Exodus 5:10; Exodus 5:13; Exodus 5:15; Exodus 5:19; Exodus 1:11; Proverbs 12:10
officers.{Shoterim,} from the Arabic {saytara,} to overlook, superintend, seems to denote, as {musaytar} in Arabic also does, overseers, superintendents. They may have been somewhat like the chiefs of trades, who are found in every city in the East; where every trade has a head, who is entrusted with authority over them, and is in some measure answerable for them to Government. Compare ch. 2:14.
Numbers 11:16; Deuteronomy 1:15; Deuteronomy 16:18; Joshua 8:33; Joshua 24:1; Joshua 24:4; 2 Chronicles 26:11