Exodus 5
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Lutheran reading notes
In Exodus chapter 5, the story continues to develop the theme of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt and the covenant at Sinai. Lutheran interpretation often highlights how the events reveal humanity’s need for God’s grace and the reliability of God's promises. The chapter illustrates both the reality of human weakness and the faithfulness of God who works through history.
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And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Exodus 5:1 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Pharaoh said, Who {is} the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
Exodus 5:2 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Exodus 5:3 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
Exodus 5:4 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now {are} many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Exodus 5:5 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
Exodus 5:6 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Exodus 5:7 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish {ought} thereof: for they {be} idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go {and} sacrifice to our God.
Exodus 5:8 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words. {Let there...: Heb. Let the work be heavy upon the men}
Exodus 5:9 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Exodus 5:10 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Exodus 5:11 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Exodus 5:12 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the taskmasters hasted {them}, saying, Fulfil your works, {your} daily tasks, as when there was straw. {your daily...: Heb. a matter of a day in his day}
Exodus 5:13 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, {and} demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
Exodus 5:14 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Exodus 5:15 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants {are} beaten; but the fault {is} in thine own people.
Exodus 5:16 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But he said, Ye {are} idle, {ye are} idle: therefore ye say, Let us go {and} do sacrifice to the LORD.
Exodus 5:17 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Go therefore now, {and} work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Exodus 5:18 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the officers of the children of Israel did see {that} they {were} in evil {case}, after it was said, Ye shall not minish {ought} from your bricks of your daily task.
Exodus 5:19 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
Exodus 5:20 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us. {to be...: Heb. to stink}
Exodus 5:21 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou {so} evil entreated this people? why {is} it {that} thou hast sent me?
Exodus 5:22 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all. {neither...: Heb. delivering thou hast not delivered}
Exodus 5:23 highlights redemption, covenant, worship with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.