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EXODUS CHAPTER 5
Moses and Aaron entreateth Pharaoh to let the people go, Exo_5:1. Pharaoh’s blasphemous refusal, Exo_5:2. Chides Moses and Aaron for their request, Exo_5:4. Pharaoh, seeing the Israelites to be many, Exo_5:5, commands the task-masters and officers to increase their bondage, Exo_5:6-9. The task-masters go and do as Pharaoh commands, Exo_5:10,11. The scattering of the people throughout Egypt, Exo_5:12. The task-masters’ cruelty to the officers of the Israelites, Exo_5:14. The officers’ complaint to Pharaoh, Exo_5:15,16. He upbraids them with idleness, Exo_5:17. His harsh answer, Exo_5:18. The officers of the children of Israel meet Moses and Aaron, and blame them, Exo_5:20,21. Moses returns and complains to God, Exo_5:22,23.
Moses and Aaron went in, and with them some of the elders of Israel, as may seem from Exo_3:18, though here only the two chiefs be mentioned. Or, because Moses did not seem to be satisfied with the assistance of the elders before offered him, Exo_3:18, God was pleased to give him a more acceptable assistant in their stead, even Aaron his brother, Exo_4:14. Told Pharaoh: either both successively told him; or Aaron did it immediately, and with his tongue, Moses by his interpreter, and by his command. Or, offer a sacrifice, as they express it, Exo_5:3 and Exo_10:9. For both went together, and a good part of many sacrifices was spent in feasting before the Lord and unto the honour of the Lord. See Deu_12:6,7,11,12.