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Exodus 5:10

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So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

KJV

And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

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This verse in Exodus 5

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

This is what Pharaoh says

on Exodus 5:10-11

This is what Pharaoh says stands in the same chapter as the LORD's own formula at verse 1. A word from God is answered by a word from the throne in the same form.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the taskmasters of the people went out,.... From the presence of Pharaoh, out of his court, to the respective places where they were set to see that the Israelites did their work: and their officers; the officers of the Israelites, who were under the taskmasters, and answerable to them for the work of the people, and their tale of bricks: and they spake to the people, saying, thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw; that is, any longer, as he had used to do.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Of the king’s palace to the people who were working. 77 The text does not say from where they went out, hence I.E.’s comment.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 5:10:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּ֨צְא֜וּand they went out

    vaiyetzeuH3318 →1067 times

  • נֹגְשֵׂ֤י[the] taskmasters of

    nogeseiH5065 →23 times

  • הָעָם֙the people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • וְשֹׁ֣טְרָ֔יוand foremen its

    veshoteravH7860 →25 times

  • וַיֹּאמְר֥וּand they said

    vaiyomeruH559 →5305 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָעָ֖םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • כֹּ֚הthus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • פַּרְעֹ֔הPharaoh

    parohH6547 →274 times

  • אֵינֶ֛נִּיnot I

    ʾeineniH369 →789 times

  • נֹתֵ֥ן[am] giving

    notenH5414 →2011 times

  • לָכֶ֖םto <the> you

    lakhem

  • תֶּֽבֶן׃straw

    tevenH8401 →17 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 3:7

    The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 145:19

      He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.

    • Psalms 106:44

      Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

    • Exodus 2:23–25

      After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

    • Psalms 34:6

      This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

    • Nehemiah 9:9

      You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

  • Through

    Exodus 1:11

    So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 15:13

      Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

    • Exodus 3:7

      The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

    • Genesis 47:11

      So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 5 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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