What demand did Moses and Aaron make to Pharaoh in Exodus 5?
They demanded that Pharaoh let Israel leave Egypt for at least a three-day journey into the wilderness so the people could sacrifice to the Lord their God. Pharaoh rebelled at even the thought, and he responded by putting harder tasks upon the slaves of Israel.
Les explains that Moses and Aaron confronted Pharaoh with the demand that Israel be allowed to leave Egypt for at least a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Pharaoh rebelled at even the thought and began to put harder tasks on the slaves of Israel. One example Les highlights is Exodus 5:7, where Pharaoh says, “...you shall no more give the people straw to make brick.” Les also notes that higher criticism, a group of theologians beginning in the late 1800s, especially in Germany, scoffed at certain parts of Scripture as unbelievable, and this was one of them.