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Exodus 5:5

And Pharao sayde furthermore: beholde, there is much people nowe in the lande, and you make them leaue theyr burthens.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pharaoh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Aaron;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   People of the Land;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Pharaoh;   Vows;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Burden;   Circumcision;   Exodus, the Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Church Fathers;   Labor;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Par`oh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens."
King James Version
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Lexham English Bible
And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now many, and you want to stop them from their forced labor."
New Century Version
There are very many Hebrews, and now you want them to quit working!"
New English Translation
Pharaoh was thinking, "The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor."
Amplified Bible
Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them stop their work!"
New American Standard Bible
Again Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their labors!"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Pharaoh saide furthermore, Behold, much people is nowe in the lande, and ye make them leaue their burdens.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their hard labors!"
Complete Jewish Bible
Look!" Pharaoh added, "the population of the land has grown, yet you are trying to have them stop working!"
Darby Translation
And Pharaoh said, Behold the people of the land are now many, and ye wish to make them rest from their burdens.
Easy-to-Read Version
There are very many workers, and you are keeping them from doing their jobs."
English Standard Version
And Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!"
George Lamsa Translation
And Pharaoh said to them, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and you cause them to stop from their work.
Good News Translation
You people have become more numerous than the Egyptians. And now you want to stop working!"
Christian Standard Bible®
Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are so numerous, and you would stop them from their labor.”
Literal Translation
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are many now, and you make them cease from their burdens.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Pharao saide morouer: Beholde, ye people are to many in ye lande, and yet wil ye byd them ceasse from their laboure.
American Standard Version
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Bible in Basic English
And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Pharaoh said: 'Behold, the people of the land are now many, and will ye make them rest from their burdens?'
King James Version (1611)
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, & you make them rest from their burdens.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Pharao said, Behold now, the people is very numerous; let us not then give them rest from their work.
English Revised Version
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Berean Standard Bible
Pharaoh also said, "Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Farao seide, The puple of the loond is myche; ye seen that the cumpany hath encreessid; hou myche more schal it encreesse, if ye schulen yyue to hem reste fro werkis.
Young's Literal Translation
Pharaoh also saith, `Lo, numerous now [is] the people of the land, and ye have caused them to cease from their burdens!'
Update Bible Version
And Pharaoh said, Look, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now [are] many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
World English Bible
Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens."
New King James Version
And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are many now, and you make them rest from their labor!"
New Living Translation
Look, there are many of your people in the land, and you are stopping them from their work."
New Life Bible
Then Pharaoh said, "See, the people of the land are now many. And you would have them stop working!"
New Revised Standard
Pharaoh continued, "Now they are more numerous than the people of the land and yet you want them to stop working!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Pharaoh said, Lo! many - now, are the people of the land, - and are ye to make them rest from their burdens?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Pharao said: The people of the land are numerous; you see that the multitude is increased; how much more if you give them rest from their works?
Revised Standard Version
And Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many and you make them rest from their burdens!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Again Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their labors!"

Contextual Overview

3 And they sayde, The God of the Hebrewes is called ouer vs: let vs go we pray thee three dayes iourney into the desert, and do sacrifice vnto the Lorde our God: lest he smyte vs with pestilence or with the sworde. 4 Then saide the kyng of Egypt vnto them: wherfore do ye, Moyses and Aaron let the people from their workes? get you vnto your burthens. 5 And Pharao sayde furthermore: beholde, there is much people nowe in the lande, and you make them leaue theyr burthens. 6 And Pharao comaunded the same day, ye taskmaisters which were amongest the people and the officers, saying: 7 Ye shall geue the people no more strawe to make brycke withal, as ye did in tyme passed: let them go and gather them strawe them selues. 8 And the number of bricke which they were wont to make in tyme passed, lay vnto their charges also, and minishe nothing therof: for they be idell, and therfore crye, saying: we wyll go, and do sacrifice vnto our God. 9 They must haue more worke layed vpon them, that they may labour therin, and not regarde vayne wordes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 1:7-11, Proverbs 14:28

Reciprocal: Exodus 1:11 - burdens Exodus 6:7 - from under 1 Kings 12:11 - I will add 2 Chronicles 10:11 - I will put

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.
Genesis 5:7
And Seth lyued after he begat Enos eyght hundreth and seuen yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
Genesis 5:8
And all the dayes of Seth were nine hundreth & twelue yeres, and he dyed.
Genesis 5:10
And Enos lyued after he begate Kenan eyght hundreth & fiftie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
Genesis 5:11
And all the dayes of Enos were nine hundreth & fyue yeres, and he dyed.
Genesis 5:12
Kenan lyued seuentie yeres, and begate Mahalaleel.
Genesis 5:14
And all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and ten yeres, and he dyed.
Genesis 5:21
Henoch lyued sixtie and fiue yeres, & begate Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
Genesis 5:32
Noah was fiue hundreth yere olde, & Noah begate Sem, Ham, & Iapheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Pharaoh said, behold, the people of the land now are many,.... 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 5:5. The people of the land now are many — The sanguinary edict had no doubt been long before repealed, or they could not have multiplied so greatly.


 
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