Exodus 5:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Pharaoh continued, “Look how they are already more numerous than the people of the land, and yet you would give them rest from their labors!”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:14

He spoke to them as the young men had advised: “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will make it heavier. My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.”

2 Chronicles 10:11

My father put a heavy yoke on you; I will make it heavier. My father beat you with whips; I will use scorpions!’”

Exodus 2:11

On one occasion, after Moses had grown up, when he had gone out to his kinsmen and witnessed their forced labor, he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own kinsmen.

Proverbs 14:28

A multitude of subjects is the glory of the king; but if his people are few, a prince is ruined.