Exodus 5:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.

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  • Exod 1:7-9 : 7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them. 8 Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are: 10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land. 11 So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
  • Prov 14:28 : 28 A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.

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    4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.

  • Exod 5:6-7
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    6 The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying,

    7 Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.

  • Exod 5:9-21
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    9 Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.

    10 And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.

    11 Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.

    12 So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

    13 And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.

    14 And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?

    15 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?

    16 They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

    17 But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

    18 Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

    19 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.

    20 And they came face to face with Moses and Aaron, who were in their way when they came out from Pharaoh:

    21 And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

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    5 And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us?

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    11 So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

    12 But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

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    9 And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:

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    34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.

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    1 And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Let my people go so that they may keep a feast to me in the waste land.

    2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.

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    15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

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    3 And the Lord gave the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians. For the man Moses was highly honoured in the land of Egypt, by Pharaoh's servants and the people.

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    20 And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh when he comes out to the water; and say to him, This is what the Lord says: Let my people go to give me worship.

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    31 And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said.

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    24 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship to the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept here: your little ones may go with you.

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    3 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

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    5 And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do.

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    10 Come, then, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may take my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

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    10 And the Lord said to Moses,

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    25 And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your God here in the land.

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    13 And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh, and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.

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    19 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people;

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    33 Now when Pharaoh sends for you and says, What is your business?