Exodus 5:23

For from the time that I entered to Pharaoh, so as to speak in your name, he has afflicted your people. And you have not freed them.”

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In The King James Version

For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

In Context

22And Moses returned to the Lord, and he said: “Lord, why have you afflicted this people? Why have you sent me?

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Cross References

Job 22:17They said to God, “Withdraw from us,” and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,

Isaiah 26:17Like a woman who has conceived and is approaching the time for delivery, who, in anguish, cries out in her pains, so have we become before your face, O Lord.

Jeremiah 11:21“Because of this, thus says the Lord to the men of Anathoth, who are seeking your life, and who are saying: ‘You shall not prophesy in the name of the Lord, and you shall not die by our hands.’

Hebrews 10:36For it is necessary for you to be patient, so that, by doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 5:16-23

15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? 16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. 17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord . 18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. 19 And the officers of… Read the whole commentary →

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