Exode 5:2

La Bible Ostervald

Mais Pharaon dit: Qui est l'Éternel, pour que j'obéisse à sa voix en laissant aller Israël? Je ne connais point l'Éternel, et je ne laisserai pas non plus aller Israël.

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Et le Pharaon dit: Qui est l'�ternel pour que j'�coute sa voix et que je laisse aller Isra�l? Je ne connais pas l'�ternel, et je ne laisserai pas non plus aller Isra�l.

Louis Segond (1910)
Pharaon r�pondit: Qui est l'Eternel, pour que j'ob�isse � sa voix, en laissant aller Isra�l? Je ne connais point l'Eternel, et je ne laisserai point aller Isra�l.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Mais Pharaon dit : qui est l'Eternel, pour que j'ob�isse � sa voix et que je laisse aller Isra�l? Je ne connais point l'Eternel, et je ne laisserai point aller Isra�l.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who: Exodus 3:19, 2 Kings 18:35, 2 Chronicles 32:15, 2 Chronicles 32:19, Job 21:15, Psalms 10:4, Psalms 12:4, Psalms 14:1

I know not: 1 Samuel 2:12, John 16:3, Romans 1:28, 2 Thessalonians 1:8

neither: Exodus 3:19, Jeremiah 44:16, Jeremiah 44:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:5 - as gods Exodus 7:17 - thou shalt Exodus 8:8 - Entreat Exodus 18:11 - in the thing Judges 2:10 - knew not 1 Samuel 25:10 - Who is David 1 Kings 12:13 - answered 1 Kings 18:21 - if the Lord 2 Kings 19:22 - Whom Nehemiah 9:10 - they Job 15:25 - strengtheneth Job 18:21 - knoweth Job 41:34 - he is Psalms 17:10 - with Psalms 73:9 - set Proverbs 18:23 - rich Proverbs 30:9 - Who Isaiah 36:20 - that the Lord Isaiah 37:23 - Whom hast Jeremiah 42:13 - General Jeremiah 43:2 - all the Jeremiah 48:26 - for he Jeremiah 50:33 - they refused Daniel 3:15 - and who Malachi 3:13 - Your 2 Corinthians 10:5 - and every Galatians 4:8 - when James 3:5 - so

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord,.... Jehovah, they made mention of, which, whether he took it for the name of a deity, or of a king, whose ambassadors they declared themselves to be, was a name he had never heard of before; and this being expressed and pronounced, shows that this name is not ineffable, or unlawful to be pronounced, as say the Jews:

that I should obey his voice, to let Israel go? he knew of no superior monarch to him, whose orders he was obliged to obey in any respect, and particularly in this, the dismission of the people of Israel out of his land, though it was but for a short time:

I know not the Lord; who this Jehovah is, that made this demand, and required Israel's dismission. The Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it,

"I have not found the name of Jehovah written in the book of angels, I am not afraid of him.''

An Egyptian book, in which, the paraphrast supposes, were written the names of gods and of angels; and no such name being there, he was the more bold and insolent:

neither will I let Israel go; determining he would pay no regard to such an unknown Deity, or King, be he who he would.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I know not the Lord - Either Pharaoh had not heard of Yahweh, or he did not recognize Him as a God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 5:2. Who is the Lord — Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice? What claims has he on me? I am under no obligation to him. Pharaoh spoke here under the common persuasion that every place and people had a tutelary deity, and he supposed that this Jehovah might be the tutelary deity of the Israelites, to whom he, as an Egyptian, could be under no kind of obligation. It is not judicious to bring this question as a proof that Pharaoh was an atheist: of this the text affords no evidence.