He placed officers over them from amongst the children of Israel, and over these officers he placed taskmasters from amongst his servants.
The taskmasters forced each man of the Israelites to put his own child in the building.
The other Israelitish officers were gentle and kind; they permitted themselves to be beaten by the taskmasters rather than prod the laborers of their own people put under their surveillance.
After a time all the Egyptians had withdrawn, and they had turned to become the officers and taskmasters of the Israelites.
Then you shall rise up and become their taskmasters and their officers, and you shall have them afterward to build without wages.
Then they refrained from giving them any pay, and when some of the Hebrews refused to work without wages, their taskmasters smote them, and made them return by force to labor with their brethren.
In the tenth verse we read that the Egyptian taskmasters and the officers combined to urge the people to their aggravated labours.
And by the fourteenth verse we find that the latter officials were Hebrew officers whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them.
And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Ceasing to speak, he sent orders to the taskmasters to increase the burdens of the Hebrews, refusing to keep his promise to Moses and Aaron.
These taskmasters were not only distinguishable from the laborers by their linen bonnet or cap with a cape descending to the neck, but by a scarlet or striped tunic, and a rod or whip of a single thong or of small cords.
Do not your taskmasters beat you enough, that you must strike each other?
He, therefore, increased their burdens and taskmasters in order to keep them in closer subjugation; but the more he oppressed them the more they multiplied.
In obedience to this command, the taskmasters and officers of this unhappy people went out and strictly fulfilled it.
The taskmasters showed no mercy; but if the laborer sunk under his burden, he was punished on the spot, and left to perish, if he were dying, and his burden transferred to the shoulders of another.
One or two minor missions were entrusted to him by his official taskmasters on the banks of the Neva, and in each he acquitted himself satisfactorily.
There they found the Children of Israel working very hard, and the taskmasters beating them with whips to make them work harder.
And they made the Children of Israel their slaves, and sent them into their fields to work, and set taskmastersover them with whips.
And Pharaoh sent away Moses and Aaron, and called for thetaskmasters who had charge of the Children of Israel, and said, “These people have asked for a holiday.
But the taskmasters heard what Pharaoh said, and they stopped the supply of straw.
Now the Children of Israel were making brick and building the walls of houses and towers; and the way to make brick was to take clay and mix it with straw and bake it; and the taskmasters provided the straw.
Would this be a reason for a final Submission to a Tribute & Egyptian Taskmasters in Support of despotick Power!
Had the Body of this People shown a proper Resentment, at the time when the proud Taskmasters first made their appearance, we should never have seen Pensioners multiplying like the Locusts in Egypt, which devoured every green Thing.
So the Egyptians set taskmasters over them to put burdens upon them.
The taskmasters urged them on, saying, "You must finish your daily task just as when there was straw.
The same day Pharaoh gave this command to the taskmasters who were over the people: "You shall no longer give the people straw for making bricks as before.
So the taskmasters who were over the people went out and said to them, "This is Pharaoh's order, 'I will no longer give you straw.
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens.
The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!
He bribed the taskmasters or kept watch over them and discovered wherein they were false to the Pharaoh, and held their own sin over their heads till they submitted through fear of him.
He regarded his taskmasters as if they were written authority no more animate than watered scrolls of papyrus.
Let my people go, that they may serve me, seems the Lord to have been saying these many years to the taskmasters of America; but who is the Lord, the taskmasters have cried, that we should obey his voice to let Israel go?
They congratulated him by signs at having escaped the fate which his cruel taskmasters had intended for him, and he seemed no less pleased than they were at the appearance of the English frigate.
Paul's hopes were not to be disappointed; the black had resolved to take the opportunity for which he had long been waiting, while his hard taskmasters were overcome by drunkenness, to escape from their power.
Our taskmasters took a brutal delight in keeping us without water as long as possible, and the awful agonies of thirst I endured in those blazing days while crossing the Admar will ever be vivid in my memory.
And he ordered the taskmasters and the overseers to increase the work of the Israelites, and make their service heavier, and to give them no more straw for their bricks, so that they might be compelled to gather straw for themselves.
And the Egyptians put taskmasters over the children of Israel, in order to oppress them with burdens.
Indeed, it is rather more cruel and insolent; for Pharaoh's taskmasters did point out to the Israelites that they might go into the fields and get stubble.
How safe and happy they must have felt away from the cruel taskmasters of Egypt, and the Lord's presence, spreading a wing of cloud over them.
He was grieved when he saw their burdens, and heard their cries when their taskmasters struck them.
There are two classes of officials mentioned: the Egyptian taskmasters and the Hebrew officers.
And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, "Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taskmasters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
