The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 5:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The people are many. This is added as an aggravation of the offence charged in the last verse. The people are numerous. Therefore the greater damage is done to the crown by putting a stop to their labours. With these words the first interview between the Israelite leaders and the Egyptian monarch ends. Moses and Aaron, we must suppose, retired discomfited from the royal presence.

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