EXODUS CHAPTER 5 Deliverance – Let My People Go (Ex 5-14)
1. In their first encounter with Pharaoh, what did Moses and Aaron ask him to do? (Exo. 5:1)
Ans: They told Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a
feast unto Me in the wilderness”.
2. What was Pharaoh’s response when they asked him to “let Israel go”? (Exo. 5:2)
Ans: Pharaoh did not know God and would not let Israel go.
3. What did they demand to Pharaoh? and Why the trip to the desert to worship was necessary? (Exo. 5:3)
Ans: They
demanded freedom of worship of true God. They
said, “…. let us go, we pray thee three days' journey into the
desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us
with pestilence, or with the sword”.
4. Why did Moses ask only for
three days only? (Exo. 5:3)
Ans: The
scripture is silent on this. Perhaps Moses placed this small
demand to test Pharaoh's heart. A chance
to agree to a small demand.
5. What did Pharaoh say Moses and Aaron were doing? (Exo. 5:4,5)
Ans: The king of Egypt
said unto them, ‘Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their works? Get back to your
labor”. And Pharaoh said, “Look,
the people of the land are many now, and
you make them rest from their labor”.
6. What products where the Israelites in Egypt were forced to do? (Exo. 5:6-8), Why did they use straw to make bricks?
Ans: Make bricks. Straw made the bricks stronger, because the clay cling to the straw and acted as a binder to reduce bricks just crumbling away.
7. What
did Pharaoh command
the taskmasters when Moses
requested him to “let Israel go”? (Exo. 5:6-7; 10-14)
Ans:
Pharaoh increased their workload. He
commanded the people to produce same
number of bricks, but without providing the straw.
8. What is
the difference between “Taskmasters” and “Foremen”? (Exo. 5: 10-14)
Ans: “Foremen”
are Hebrews / Israelites in charge of groups of other Hebrews; where as “Taskmasters” are
Egyptians that are in charge of foremen.
9.
Who was
beaten because they had not met their quotas? (Exo. 5:14)
Ans: The officers of the
children of Israel.
10 ) How did the officers of Israel react to Moses and Aaron because of the increased work? (Exo. 5:20-21)
Ans: They were upset and said to
them, “The LORD look upon
you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the
eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us’.
11) When and Who said to whom? “Why is it You have sent me?” (Exo. 5:22)
Ans:
The officials of the children of Israel went and cried to Pharaoh, he hardened
their work, and when they met Moses, they complained to Moses and Moses
returned to the Lord and said, Why….?
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