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Exodus 5:4

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

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And the king of Egypt said to them,.... For he was not struck dumb, as Artapanus (g), afore cited writer, says:

wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? as they did when they gathered them together, and wrought signs before them; which Pharaoh it seems had heard of, and had got their names very readily:

get you unto your burdens; meaning not Moses and Aaron, ordering them to go about their private and family business, but the people they represented, and on whose account they came; and it is highly probable the elders of the people, at least some of them, were with them, to whom these words might be more particularly directed. See Exodus 3:18.

(g) Ut supra. (Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 434.)

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