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- Egyptian taskmasters:
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- "The term 'slave masters' is common to both Hebrew and Egyptian. The same official Egyptian name, ser, appears on the famous wall painting from the Thebean tomb of Rekhmire, the overseer of the brick-making slaves during the reign of Thutmose III. The painting shows such overseers armed with heavy whips. Their rank is denoted by the long staff held in their hands and by the Egyptian hieroglyphic determinative of the head and neck of a giraffe." (Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Vol. 2, © 1990 Zondervan, p. 304)
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