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be done after the harvest, the Egyptians then as now cutting off the ears, not the stalks of the grain. The second is that this period of the year, running over fifty days, is often most unhealthy, a pestilential sand wind blowing over the land. We can fancy their sufferings.
Still the orders were for the full “tale” as when they had straw, but filled up they could not be. What then? The overseer, according to a representation of the whole plan found in a temple at Thebes, is armed with a heavy lash, and cries out, “Work without fainting.” The lash was laid on the Hebrew officers, who remonstrated and (v. 14) appealed to Pharaoh in vain. The order was renewed, the straw was still withheld, and the charge was made that their plea about sacrificing to Jehovah was only a pretence, “Ye are idle, ye are idle” (v. 17). So Egypt became emphatically the “land of bondage” to Israel, and—showing how hard it is to interfere between the oppressed and the oppressor—the Hebrew officers say to
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