the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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2 Mose 5:5
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Weiter sprach der Pharao: Siehe, des Volkes ist schon zuviel im Lande; und ihr wollt sie noch von ihrer Arbeit feiern heißen?
Und der Pharao sprach: Siehe, das Volk des Landes ist nun zahlreich, und ihr wollt sie von ihren Lastarbeiten feiern lassen!
Bible Verse Review
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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
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 The people of the land now are many — The sanguinary edict had no doubt been long before repealed, or they could not have multiplied so greatly.
