Exodus 5:5
“Look here,” he went on. “There are many of your people here in our country and you are preventing them from doing their assigned labor.”
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6That very day he ordered the slave drivers and those in charge of the people:
Cross References
Exodus 1:7However, the Israelites had many children and their numbers increased rapidly. In fact there were so many of them that they became very powerful—the country was full of them.
Proverbs 14:28The glory of a king is the number of his subjects, for a ruler is nothing without them.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 5:4-10
3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. 4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. 5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. 6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the… Read the whole commentary →