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Exode 5:5

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5 Et Pharaon dit: Voici, le peuple du pays est maintenant en grand nombre, et vous les faites chĂ´mer de leur travail

Exode 5:5 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 5:5

And Pharaoh said, behold, the people of the land now are many,
&c.] So that if some were taken off, as suggested, there were enough of them to do business and so he cared not; but if allowed to go, they might mutiny and rebel, and give a great deal of trouble to quell them; or it may be, the sense is, they were very numerous, and too numerous already, and if they were took off of their work, and allowed to go a feasting, they would be more so, which agrees with the next clause:

and you make them rest from their burdens;
which was the way to make them more numerous still, and to frustrate the design of laying burdens upon them, which was originally intended to hinder the multiplication of them, ( Exodus 1:9-14 ) .

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Exode 5:5 In-Context

3 Et ils dirent: Le Dieu des Hébreux est venu au-devant de nous; permets-nous d'aller le chemin de trois jours dans le désert, pour que nous sacrifiions à l'Éternel notre Dieu, de peur qu'il ne nous frappe par la peste ou par l'épée.
4 Et le roi d'Égypte leur dit: Moïse et Aaron, pourquoi détournez-vous le peuple de son ouvrage? Allez à vos travaux.
5 Et Pharaon dit: Voici, le peuple du pays est maintenant en grand nombre, et vous les faites chĂ´mer de leur travail
6 Pharaon donna ordre ce jour-là aux exacteurs établis sur le peuple, et à ses commissaires, en disant:
7 Vous ne donnerez plus de paille au peuple pour faire les briques, comme auparavant; qu'ils aillent eux-mĂŞmes, et qu'ils s'amassent de la paille.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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