Exodus 5:22

And Moshe returned unto Hashem, and said, Adonoi, why hast Thou brought evil upon this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

In Context

21And they said unto them, Hashem look upon you, and judge; because ye have made us stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his avadim, to put a cherev in their yad to slay us.

23For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy Shem, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast Thou delivered Thy people at all. + 5:23 Genesis offers the promise of land and life but ends with nearly everyone being swept into a tomb (see Gn 49:29-33 ), with the body of Yosef going back to that tomb in a 400 year long trek ( Gn 50:24-26; Ex 13:19 ). But a victory over, and a defeat of, that tomb will occur when “the 70” ( Ex 1:5 ) burst forth from the tomb of Egypt in a great exodus of “600,000”. This death and resurrection of Yisroel was possible because of midwives who didn't believe in abortion ( 1:17 ), who did believe instead in the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as the G-d of the living. This awesome G-d commissions Moses while he is a shepherd in Midian on Mt. Sinai (Chorev) to deliver His people with the Matteh HaElohim (the Rod of G-d) performing signs and wonders (this word “wonder,” mofet in Ex 7:3 , we will see again in a key Messianic passage in Zech 3:8 which references Zech 6:11-12 where the Moshiachʼs personal name is revealed). The G-d of Israel reveals to Moses His personal covenant Name, that He is the G-d who always is ( Ex 3:14 ), the eternally self-existent true G-d. This one true G-d is the author of salvation ( Ex 6:1-8 ).

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Cross References

Numbers 11:11And Moshe said unto Hashem, Why hast Thou afflicted Thy eved? And why have I not found chen (favor) in Thy sight, that Thou layest the massa (burden) of all this people upon me?

Joshua 7:7And Yehoshua said, Alas, Adonoi Hashem, why hast Thou at all brought HaAm Hazeh over the Yarden, to deliver us into the yad HaEmori, to destroy us? If only we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Yarden!

1 Kings 19:4But he himself went derech yom (a dayʼs journey) into the midbar, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he requested for his nefesh to die; and said, It is enough; now, O Hashem, take away my nefesh; for I am no better than my avot.

Psalms 73:25Whom have I in Shomayim but Thee? 1 And there is none upon HaAretz that I desire beside Thee. 1

Jeremiah 20:7Hashem, Thou hast induced me, 1 and I was induced; 1 Thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed; 1 I am a laughingstock all day long, 1 every one mocketh me. 1

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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