Exodus 5:5

New English Translation

Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:14

and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”

2 Chronicles 10:11

My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’”

Exodus 2:11

In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.

Proverbs 14:28

A king’s glory is the abundance of people, but the lack of subjects is the ruin of a ruler.