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- 71 “Ah! just the thing I feared. They want to get away out of the land,” although this three days’ journey would not have implied crossing its borders. Accordingly he made the orders more rigorous. Straw was not to be given. The brick-makers must find it, and at the same time produce the same “tale of bricks” as before. There were two classes of officers over them, showing how well organized the system had become. There were, first, the taskmasters, apparently of two classes, one above the other, the latter called overseers; then there were “officers of the children of Israel” (v. 14), held responsible no doubt for “the tale of bricks.” In a papyrus of the nineteenth dynasty the writer complains, “I have no one to help me in making bricks, no straw.” The poor Hebrews had to roam over the land to get stubble. Here the scholars have made out two things which it is enough to state as results without trying our young readers with the process. The first is that this work would
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