1. Exode 5:9 (NEG79)
  2. Explication du texte

Of what does Pharaoh accuse Moses and Aaron?

Exode 5:9 (NEG79)

9 Que l'on charge de travail ces gens, qu'ils s'en occupent, et ils ne prendront plus garde à des paroles de mensonge.

He accuses them of making up that the Lord has sent them to let the people go, and that they deceive the people thus. We read a similar charge in 2 Kings 18:20, where the Assyrian army commander exhorts the Israelites not to believe the mere words of King Hezekiah; and in Jeremiah 43:2 where the Judeans tell Jeremiah that he is a liar. In all three cases it is denied that they speak on behalf of the Lord.