Exodus 5:23

For 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 ).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

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Cross References

Job 22:17Who said unto El, Depart from us; 1 and what can Shaddai do to them? 1

Isaiah 26:17Like a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, 1 in travail, and crieth out in her pangs; 1 so have we been in Thy sight, Hashem. 1

Jeremiah 11:21Therefore thus saith Hashem of the anshei Anatot, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not B'Shem Hashem, that thou die not by our yad;

Hebrews 10:36You are nitzrach (needy) of the kind of savlanut (patience) that has endurance, in order that, having accomplished the ratzon Hashem, you will receive the havtachah (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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