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Exodus 5:6

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The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt was the land where Israel lived under Pharaoh’s rule, centered along the Nile in northeastern Africa. In this passage, Pharaoh’s command to the Egyptian taskmasters begins a harsher policy of forced labor against the Israelites, resisting God’s demand through Moses that they be allowed to worship him.

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Exodus 5:6 mentions Egypt.

Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

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