Exodus 5:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² But 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go.

Common English Bible

² But Pharaoh said, “Who is this LORD whom I’m supposed to obey by letting Israel go? I don’t know this LORD, and I certainly won’t let Israel go.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² But he responded: "Who is the Lord, that I should listen to his voice and release Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not release Israel."

Exodus 5:2 Cross References

Exodus 3:19

I know, however, that the king of Egypt will not let you go except by a mighty hand.

Job 21:15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’

2 Kings 18:35

Who among all the gods of the countries have delivered their countries out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?”

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in a fiery flame, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

John 16:3

And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.

Psalm 14:1

Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.

Psalm 12:4

those who say, “With our tongues we will prevail; our lips are our own—who is our master?”

Psalm 10:4

In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, “God will not seek it out”; all their thoughts are, “There is no God.”

2 Chronicles 32:19

They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as if he were like the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of human hands.

2 Chronicles 32:15

Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to save his people from my hand or from the hand of my ancestors. How much less will your God save you out of my hand!”

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord

Exodus 7:17

Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord.” See, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall be turned to blood.

Judges 2:10

Moreover, that whole generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.

2 Chronicles 32:14

Who among all the gods of those nations that my ancestors utterly destroyed was able to save his people from my hand, that your God should be able to save you from my hand?

Nehemiah 9:10

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted insolently against our ancestors. You made a name for yourself that remains to this day.

Jeremiah 42:13

But if you continue to say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ thus disobeying the voice of the Lord your God

Jeremiah 48:26

Make him drunk because he magnified himself against the Lord; let Moab wallow in his vomit; he, too, shall become a laughingstock.

Daniel 3:15

Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble, you should fall down and worship the statue that I have made. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire, and who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”

1 Samuel 25:10

But Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are breaking away from their masters.

Job 15:25

Because they stretched out their hands against God and bid defiance to the Almighty,

Job 15:26

running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,” says the Lord; “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”

Proverbs 30:9

lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.