Exodus 5:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 1:11 : 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
  • Jer 38:4 : 4 Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
  • Amos 7:10 : 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Beth El sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
  • Luke 23:2 : 2 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
  • Acts 16:20-21 : 20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city, 21 and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 5:5-7
    3 verses
    88%

    5Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens."

    6The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

    7"You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

  • Exod 14:5
    80%

    5It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

  • Exod 5:9-21
    13 verses
    80%

    9Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."

    10The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says: "I will not give you straw.

    11Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."

    12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

    13The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"

    14The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

    15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?

    16No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and, behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

    17But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.'

    18Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!"

    19The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"

    20They met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:

    21and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • Exod 10:3
    78%

    3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exod 5:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"

    2Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."

    3They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."

  • Exod 9:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

    2For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,

  • Exod 8:20
    77%

    20Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes forth to the water; and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exod 9:13
    77%

    13Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exod 10:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

    8Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?"

  • Exod 12:31
    76%

    31He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

  • 1 Sam 6:6
    76%

    6Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?

  • Exod 8:1
    76%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, "This is what Yahweh says, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exod 8:25
    76%

    25Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!"

  • Exod 6:13
    76%

    13Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 6:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    11"Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land."

  • Exod 1:11
    75%

    11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

  • Exod 10:24
    75%

    24Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you."

  • Exod 3:10
    75%

    10Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

  • Exod 3:18
    75%

    18They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'

  • Exod 14:11
    75%

    11They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

  • Exod 8:28
    74%

    28Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me."

  • Exod 7:16
    74%

    16You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:" and, behold, until now you haven't listened.

  • Exod 1:13
    74%

    13The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

  • Exod 11:1
    74%

    1Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.

  • Exod 7:14
    74%

    14Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.

  • Num 20:15
    74%

    15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • Exod 9:17
    73%

    17as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.