Exod.5.4

Exodus 5:4

KJV

And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.

Pharaoh’s First Refusal

Israel’s Labor Increased

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

KJV

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Oppression by a New King

Israel Multiplies in Egypt

Exodus 2:11

KJV

¶ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

The Rejection and Flight of Moses

The Birth of Moses

Exodus 6:5

KJVGOD

And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

God Promises Deliverance

Jeremiah 38:4

KJV

Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.