Exodus 5:21

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and 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."

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt was the land where the Israelites lived under Pharaoh’s oppressive rule. In this verse, the Hebrew foremen blame Moses and Aaron because their appeal to Pharaoh has increased Israel’s hardship, making Egypt the setting of the conflict between God’s people and Pharaoh’s resistance.

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Exodus 5:21 mentions Egypt.

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