Exodus 5:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Pharaoh continued, “Now they are more numerous than the people of the land and yet you want them to stop laboring!”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:14

and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

2 Chronicles 10:11

Now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’ ”

Exodus 2:11

One day after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Proverbs 14:28

The glory of a king is a multitude of people; without people a prince is ruined.