🔥WEB · Exodus 5:5
What does Exodus 5:5 mean?
"Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”"
— Exodus 5:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”
Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”
The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
“You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
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Biblical perspective
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The number 555 has no specific meaning in Scripture. The Bible does speak extensively about change, transition, and trusting God through seasons of uncertainty — which is often what people are really asking about.
Isaiah 55:8-9 is a passage about God's ways being higher than human understanding — a much more grounded answer to the question of what's coming next.
Isaiah 55:8
"'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,' says Yahweh."
Proverbs 3:5
"Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding."
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