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Exodus 5:4

Listen to Exodus 5:4
4 Toen zeide de koning van Egypte tot hen: Gij, Mozes en Aaron! waarom trekt gij het volk af van hun werken? Gaat heen tot uw lasten.

Exodus 5:4 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 5:4

And the king of Egypt said to them
For he was not struck dumb, as Artapanus F7, afore cited writer, says:

wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works?
as they did when they gathered them together, and wrought signs before them; which Pharaoh it seems had heard of, and had got their names very readily:

get you unto your burdens;
meaning not Moses and Aaron, ordering them to go about their private and family business, but the people they represented, and on whose account they came; and it is highly probable the elders of the people, at least some of them, were with them, to whom these words might be more particularly directed. See ( Exodus 3:18 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F7 Ut supra. (Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 434.)
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Exodus 5:4 In-Context

2 Maar Farao zeide: Wie is de HEERE, Wiens stem ik gehoorzamen zou, om Israel te laten trekken? Ik ken den HEERE niet, en ik zal ook Israel niet laten trekken.
3 Zij dan zeiden: De God der Hebreen is ons ontmoet; zo laat ons toch heentrekken, den weg van drie dagen in de woestijn, en den HEERE, onzen God, offeren, dat Hij ons niet overkome met pestilentie, of met het zwaard.
4 Toen zeide de koning van Egypte tot hen: Gij, Mozes en Aaron! waarom trekt gij het volk af van hun werken? Gaat heen tot uw lasten.
5 Verder zeide Farao: Ziet, het volk des lands is alreeds te veel; en zoudt gijlieden hen doen rusten van hun lasten?
6 Daarom beval Farao, ten zelfden dage, aan de aandrijvers onder het volk, en deszelfs ambtlieden, zeggende:
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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