Exodus 5:10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
10 So the taskmasters of the people and their foremen went out and told the people, “Thus says Pharaoh,[a] ‘I will not provide you with straw.
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- 5:10 Thus says Pharaoh: the standard formula for prophetic oracles, but with Pharaoh rather than the Lord as the subject. This heightens the sense of personal conflict between Pharaoh, who acts as if he were God, and the Lord, whose claims are spurned by Pharaoh.
Exodus 5:10
New International Version
10 Then the slave drivers(A) and the overseers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw.
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