Exodus Chapter 1 verse 9 Holy Bible
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
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And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:
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And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we.
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And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
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And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
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He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
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and he saith unto his people, `Lo, the people of the sons of Israel `is' more numerous and mighty than we;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9 - And he said unto his people, Behold, the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Literally, "great and strong in comparison with us." Actual numerical superiority is not, perhaps, meant; yet the expression is no doubt an exaggerated one, beyond the truth - the sort of exaggeration in which unprincipled persons indulge when they would justify themselves for taking an extreme and unusual course.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) He said unto his people.--It is not intended to represent the Egyptian monarch as summoning a popular assembly, and addressing it. "His people." Is antithetical to "the people of the children of Israel," and simply marks that those whom he addressed were of his own nation. No doubt they were his nobles, or, at any rate, his courtiers.More and mightier than we.--Heb., great and mighty in comparison with us. The more to impress his counsellors, and gain their consent to his designs, the king exaggerates. Ancient Egypt must have had a population of seven or eight millions, which would imply nearly two millions of adult males, whereas the adult male Israelites, near a century later, were no more than six hundred thousand (Exodus 12:37). Wicked men do not scruple at misrepresentation when they have an end to gain.
