Exodus · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Exodus 5 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 Después Moisés y Aarón fueron a Faraón y le dijeron: Yavé el ʼElohim de Israel dice: Deja ir a mi pueblo para que me celebre una fiesta en el desierto.
1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”
2 Pero Faraón respondió: ¿Quién es Yavé para que yo obedezca su voz y deje ir a Israel? ¡No conozco a Yavé ni dejaré ir a Israel!
2 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.”
3 Ellos dijeron: El ʼElohim de los hebreos se encontró con nosotros. Te rogamos que nos permitas ir un camino de tres jornadas por el desierto para que ofrezcamos sacrificio a Yavé nuestro ʼElohim, no sea que Él nos ataque con pestilencia o con la espada.
3 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.”
4 Entonces el rey de Egipto les dijo a Moisés y Aarón: ¿Por qué distraen al pueblo de su trabajo? ¡Dedíquense a sus tareas!
4 The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”
5 También Faraón dijo: Miren, las gentes de la tierra son ahora muchas, y ustedes los están haciendo cesar en sus tareas.
5 Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”
6 Aquel mismo día Faraón mandó a los capataces del pueblo y a sus caporales:
6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
7 No continúen la provisión de pasto seco al pueblo para fabricar adobes como en días pasados. ¡Que ellos mismos vayan y recojan el pasto seco!
7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8 Les exigirán la misma cantidad de adobes que hacían en días pasados, y no la rebajarán, porque son perezosos. Por eso claman y dicen: Deseamos ir a hacer sacrificios para nuestro ʼElohim.
8 You 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.’
9 ¡Que se agrave la servidumbre sobre ellos, que se ocupen en ella y no atiendan a palabras falsas!
9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
10 Entonces al salir los capataces y los caporales, hablaron al pueblo: Faraón dijo: ¡Ya no les doy más pasto seco!
10 The 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.
11 Vayan, recojan ustedes mismos pasto seco donde lo encuentren, aunque nada se disminuirá de su tarea.
11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
12 Entonces el pueblo se esparció por toda la tierra de Egipto para recoger rastrojo que sirviera como pasto seco.
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13 Entre tanto los capataces los apremiaban y decían: Acaben sus tareas, la tarea de cada día en su día, como cuando había pasto seco.
13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
14 También los caporales de los hijos de Israel, a quienes los capataces de Faraón les dieron autoridad sobre ellos, eran azotados, y les decían: ¿Por qué no cumplieron ayer ni hoy su cuota de adobes como antes?
14 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?”
15 Entonces los caporales de los hijos de Israel fueron a Faraón y se quejaron ante él: ¿Por qué tratas así a tus esclavos?
15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
16 No se da pasto seco a tus esclavos, pero nos dicen: ¡Hagan adobes! Mira, tus esclavos son azotados, como si tu pueblo fuera el culpable.
16 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.”
17 Pero él respondió: Son perezosos, muy perezosos, y por eso ustedes dicen: Vamos a ofrecer sacrificio a Yavé.
17 But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
18 Vayan ahora y trabajen. No se les dará pasto seco, y deberán entregar la misma cantidad de adobes.
18 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
19 Y los caporales de los hijos de Israel se vieron en apuros porque se les dijo: Nada de su cuota de adobes se reducirá. La tarea de cada jornada en su día.
19 The 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!”
20 Al salir de la presencia de Faraón, se encontraron con Moisés y Aarón, quienes los esperaban,
20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh.
21 y les dijeron: Que Yavé los mire y juzgue, pues nos hicieron odiosos ante Faraón y ante sus esclavos al poner en su mano una espada para que se nos mate.
21 They said to them, “May Yahweh 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!”
22 Entonces Moisés se volvió hacia Yavé y le dijo: Oh ʼAdonay, ¿por qué afliges a este pueblo? ¿Por qué me enviaste?
22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
23 Porque desde cuando fui a Faraón para hablar en tu Nombre, él afligió a este pueblo, y Tú no has librado a tu pueblo de ningún modo.
23 For 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!”
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Aaron
Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (19)
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- 1 Exodus 10:9; Acts 4:29; 1 Corinthians 5:8; Ezekiel 2:6; Matthew 10:28
- 2 Exodus 3:19; Job 21:15; 2 Kings 18:35; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Romans 1:28
- 3 Exodus 3:18; 2 Kings 17:25; 2 Chronicles 30:8; Deuteronomy 28:21; Zechariah 14:16–19
- 4 Exodus 1:11; Amos 7:10; Acts 24:5; Luke 23:2; Jeremiah 38:4
- 5 Proverbs 14:28; Exodus 1:7–11
- 6 Exodus 5:19; Exodus 5:10; Joshua 8:33; 2 Chronicles 26:11; Joshua 24:4
- 7 Genesis 24:25; Judges 19:19
- 8 Psalm 106:41
- 9 Ephesians 5:6; Malachi 3:14; Zechariah 1:6; 2 Kings 18:20; Job 16:3
- 10 Exodus 1:11; Proverbs 29:12; Exodus 3:7
- 11 Exodus 5:13–14
- 12 Obadiah 18; Nahum 1:10; Exodus 15:7; 1 Corinthians 3:12; Joel 2:5
- 14 Isaiah 10:24
- 17 Exodus 5:8; John 6:27; Matthew 26:8; 2 Thessalonians 3:10–11
- 18 Daniel 2:9–13; Ezekiel 18:18
- 19 Ecclesiastes 5:8; Ecclesiastes 4:1; Deuteronomy 32:36
- 21 Genesis 34:30; 2 Samuel 10:6; Exodus 6:9; Genesis 16:5; 1 Samuel 27:12
- 22 Jeremiah 20:7; 1 Kings 19:10; Numbers 11:14–15; 1 Kings 19:4; Numbers 11:11
- 23 Jeremiah 11:21; Psalm 118:26; Hebrews 10:36–37; Isaiah 26:17–18; Isaiah 28:16
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
This abased Pharaoh. For, "I know not," he saith, "the Lord," and he became inferior to flies and frogs, and the locusts, and after that with his very arms and horses was he drowned in the sea.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)