Exodus 5:6

Further Oppression Of Israel

⁵ Pharaoh added: Look how many people there are in the land! Do you want them to quit working? ⁶ So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters over the people and their foremen, saying, ⁷ Do not give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw.

In that Day

On that Day

People of Israel

Same Day

Pharaoh

Exodus 5:10

The slave drivers and the Israelite foremen went out and said to the Israelites: The king has said that he will not supply you with any more straw.

Exodus 5:19

The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told: Do not make fewer bricks each day than you are supposed to.

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians put slave masters over them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply (storage) cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 5:13-15

The slave bosses were hard on them. They kept saying: Each day you have to make as many bricks as you did when you were given straw.

Exodus 3:7

Jehovah said: I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt. I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them.

Numbers 11:16

Jehovah replied to Moses: Assemble seventy respected men who are recognized as elders of the people. Bring them to me at the tent of my presence, and tell them to stand there beside you.

Deuteronomy 1:15

So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them rulers over you. I made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every city Jehovah your God gives you. They are to judge the people fairly.

Joshua 8:33

All Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the Ark before the priests. The Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; Half of the people stood on Mount Gerizim. And half of them stood on Mount Ebal. As Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

Joshua 24:1

Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem. He called the elders, the leaders, the judges, and the officers of Israel, and they came to the presence of God.

Joshua 24:4

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Edom as his possession, but your ancestor Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

2 Chronicles 26:11

He had a large army ready for battle. Its records were kept by his secretaries Jeiel and Maaseiah under the supervision of Hananiah, a member of the king's staff.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, but the compassion of the wicked is terrible.