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Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” See also: Exodus 10:9Acts 4:29Jonah 3:3-4Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.” See also: Exodus 3:19Job 21:152 Kings 18:35They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.” See also: Exodus 3:18Ezra 7:232 Kings 17:25The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!” See also: Exodus 1:11Acts 24:5Luke 23:2Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.” See also: Proverbs 14:28Exodus 1:7-11The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, See also: Exodus 5:19Exodus 5:10Joshua 24:4“You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. See also: Genesis 24:25Judges 19:19You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’ See also: Psalms 106:41Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.” See also: 2 Kings 18:20Ephesians 5:6Malachi 3:14The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw. See also: Exodus 1:11Exodus 3:7Proverbs 29:12Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’” See also: Exodus 5:13-14So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. See also: Isaiah 5:24Isaiah 47:14Exodus 15:7The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!” The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?” See also: Isaiah 10:24Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants? No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.” But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to the LORD.’ See also: Matthew 26:8Exodus 5:8John 6:27Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!” See also: Ezekiel 18:18Daniel 2:9-13The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!” See also: Ecclesiastes 5:8Ecclesiastes 4:1Deuteronomy 32:36They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh. They said to them, “May the LORD look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!” See also: Genesis 34:301 Samuel 13:4Genesis 16:5Moses returned to the LORD, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me? See also: Jeremiah 20:71 Samuel 30:61 Kings 19:4For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!” See also: Jeremiah 11:21Hebrews 10:36-37Isaiah 28:16
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Exodus 5:1
Ver. 1. Went in alone. Aaron was substituted instead of the ancients, chap. iii.
16. --- Pharao Amasis, Cenchres, or Amenophis. Usher. --- Sacrifice, which is the principal part of a religious festival. M.
↑ 1Exodus 5:2
Ver. 2. The Lord. Is there anyone above me?
↑ 2Exodus 5:3
Ver. 3. Upon us. They include themselves in the common danger, in case of disobedience; and they admonish the king respectfully, that there is no resisting the God of the Hebrews with impunity.
↑ 3Exodus 5:4
Ver. 4. Get you. He knew not that Moses had been so long absent; and if he had known, he would not probably have treated him more mildly. H.
↑ 4Exodus 5:5
Ver. 5. Increased, the edict against children being abrogated. M. --- He insists upon their labour being so intense and toilsome, as to thin their ranks.
↑ 5Exodus 5:6
Ver. 6. Overseers, natives of Egypt, who had under them some Hebrews for task-masters, as the people were more willing to obey them, v. 14.
↑ 6Exodus 5:7
Ver. 7. Straw, beaten small and mixed with clay, to make brick and mortar. See Ezec. xiii. 11.
15. Chardin, Perse ii. p. 76.
↑ 7Exodus 5:8
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 8. Idle. Thus the impious speak of those who consecrate any part of their time to the service of God: and thus Protestants often condemn the holy-days prescribed by the Catholic Church!
↑ 8Exodus 5:9
Ver. 9. Lying words, alluding to the proposals of Moses. H. -- Let them not spend their time in idle conversation. C.
↑ 9Exodus 5:12
Ver. 12. Straw. While some continued at the works, (M.) others went about the fields to gather up every grain of chaff and piece of straw which they could find.
↑ 12Exodus 5:14
Ver. 14. And they, the officers of the children of Israel, established over their brethren, as the Heb. more clearly insinuates, were scourged, or bastinadoed on the soles of the feet, as smaller faults are commonly punished in the East; (C.) or they were beaten also with rods, v. 16. H.
↑ 14Exodus 5:16
Ver. 16. Withal. Heb. "the fault is in thy own people," who require impossibilities. C. --- They throw the blame upon the king's officers, (M.) though it was his own. H.
↑ 16Exodus 5:21
Ver. 21. Kill us. You are the occasion of our more cruel treatment. You have made the king have a bad opinion of us. Heb. "you have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharao." So Jacob said, (Gen. xxxiv. 30,) you have made me stink or become odious. Those who attempt to do a kindness, unsuccessfully, often experience a similar ingratitude. C. xiv. 11. M. It does not appear from the original, whether the officers or Moses was coming from the king's presence.
They met in some appointed place. C.
↑ 21Exodus 5:22
Ver. 22. Wherefore. These are not words of anger, but of earnest prayer. S. Aug.
q. 14. Moses does not attempt to satisfy the exasperated officers, but commits the whole to God. M. --- In great undertakings, there are commonly many difficulties; which ought not to discourage us. T.
↑ 22License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses