7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
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Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-9)Finding that Pharaoh had no veneration at all for God, Moses and Aaron next try whether he had any compassion for Israel, and become humble suitors to him for leave to go and sacrifice, but in vain. I. Their request is very humble and modest, Exod. 5:3. They make no complaint of the rigour they were ruled with. They plead that the journey they designed was not a project formed among themselves, bu…
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