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«And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, / Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.»

«And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.»

«And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.»

«And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? / And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.»

«And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.»

«And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.»

«Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.»

«And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.»

«And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests: / And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend: / And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.»

«Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea -- on, on -- until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it. And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.»