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[[File:eve.jpg|right|350px|thumb|In [[Egypt]] under the [[Pharaoh]] 20% of your labor belonged to the [[government]] of [[Pharaoh]] as if you were [[employ]]ed and they called it the [[Bondage of Egypt]]. Were the [[taskmaster]]s actually a form of slave masters on a [[corvee]] system? <Br>All over the [[world]] today people pay much more of their labor to the government and call it freedom.<Br>But because the people desired [[benefits]] from men who call themselves [[Benefactors]] we have returned to [[bondage]]. We were told to 'never return to the bondage of [[Egypt]] but people did under [[Herod]] and [[Rome]], and in the United States under [[FDR]]. It was also called a [[corvee]] system of statutory labor or the [[bondage]] of [[Egypt]]. Jesus told us  to [[repent|think a different]] way and to [[seek]] the [[Kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]]. Are we in need of learning the lessons of [[Exodus]]?<Br>This was because the [[corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] and [[Herod]] ''made the word of God to none effect'' because as [[covetous practices]] it mad men [[merchandise]] instead of setting the [[captive]] free.]]

== Taskmaster ==

In [[Exodus 1]]:11 We see the MemSamech<Ref name="mac">{{04522}}</Ref> or "forced service... enforced payment" as ''[[taskmaster]]s''<Ref name="sar">{{08269}}</Ref> meaning ''afflict them with their burdens.'' The term, mas (מס) describes Pharaoh appointing “officers of the levy/labor (שרי מסים)” we see 23 times.<Ref>[[Genesis 49]]:15 "And he saw that rest [was] good, and the land that [it was] pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto [[tribute]] <04522>.
: 1 Kings 4:6  And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda [was] over the tribute <04522>.
: 1 Kings 5:13  And king Solomon raised a levy <04522> out of all Israel; and the levy <04522> was thirty thousand men. 14  And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, [and] two months at home: and Adoniram [was] over the levy <04522>.</Ref> Samuel will tell [[Saul Syndrome|Saul]] this not only is [[foolish]] but against the commandments.<Ref>[[1 Samuel 13]]:13  And Samuel said to [[Saul Syndrome|Saul]], Thou hast done foolishly <05528>: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.</Ref>  But what appears in the text as missîm(מִסִּ֔ים) which appears nowhere else in the Bible in this form. It is accompanied by the term śārê(שָׂרֵ֣י)<Ref name="sar">{{08269}}</Ref> and together they, śārê missîm(שרי מסים), produce taskmasters in verse 11.

This is also because of the context of the verse:

[[Exodus 1]]:11 "Therefore they did set over them taskmasters<Ref name="mac">{{04522}}</Ref><Ref name="sar">{{08269}}</Ref> to afflict<Ref name="anah">{{06031}}</Ref> them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses."

These ''treasure cities'' became with these acts what the Bible will call the [[cities of blood]] because the people were literally [[merchandise]] in them. The city was the cauldron and the people were the flesh, the Human Resources who were back in the [[bondage of Egypt]].

The normal or common word for ''taskmasters'' is ''nagas''<Ref name="nagas">{{05065}}</Ref> more often translated ''oppressor''.<Ref>[[Deuteronomy 15]]:2  And this [is] the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth [ought] unto his neighbour shall release [it]; he shall not exact <05065> [it] of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’S release.</Ref>.


== Appearance in the Bible ==

Other than [[Exodus 1]]:11 the Term taskmaster is translated from Nagas<Ref name="nagas">{{05065}}</Ref> which is also translated ''oppressor'' 7 times, ''[[taskmaster]]s'' 5 times, ''exact'' 4 times, ''distressed'', ''oppressed'' twice each, and ''driver'', ''exactors', and ''taxes'' once each. 


=== nagas ===


Exodus 3:7  And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their [[taskmaster]]s <05065>; for I know their sorrows;

Exodus 5:6  And Pharaoh commanded the same day the [[taskmaster]]s<05065> of the people, and their officers, saying,

Exodus 5:10  And the [[taskmaster]]s<05065> of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

Exodus 5:13  And the [[taskmaster]]s<05065> hasted [them], saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.

Exodus 5:14  And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s [[taskmaster]]s<05065> had set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

[[Deuteronomy 15]]:2  And this [is] the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth [ought] unto his neighbour shall release [it]; he shall not exact <05065> [it] of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’S release.

Deuteronomy 15:3  Of a foreigner thou mayest exact <05065> [it again]: but [that] which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

1 Samuel 13:6  When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed <05065>,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

1 Samuel 14:24  And the men of Israel were distressed <05065> that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted [any] food.

2 Kings 23:35  And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted <05065> the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give [it] unto Pharaohnechoh.

Job 3:18  [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor <05065>.
Job 39:7  He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver <05065>.

Isaiah 3:5  And the people shall be oppressed <05065>, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Isaiah 3:12  [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors <05065>, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Isaiah 9:4  For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor <05065>, as in the day of Midian.

Isaiah 14:2  And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors <05065>.

Isaiah 14:4  That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor <05065> ceased! the golden city ceased!

Isaiah 53:7  He was oppressed <05065>, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Isaiah 58:3  Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact <05065> all your labours.

Isaiah 60:17  For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors <05065> righteousness.

Daniel 11:20  Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes <05065> [in] the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

[[Zechariah 9]]:8  And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no [[oppress]]or <05065> shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

[[Zechariah 10]]:4  Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every [[oppress]]or <05065> together.


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