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I do not know the LORD; and I will not let Israel go." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/exodus/5-2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/exodus/5-2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/exodus/5-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/exodus/1.htm">Exodus</a> > <a href="/gntd/exodus/5.htm">Chapter 5</a> > Verse 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/5-1.htm" title="Exodus 5:1">◄</a> Exodus 5:2 <a href="../exodus/5-3.htm" title="Exodus 5:3">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/exodus/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/exodus/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"Who is the LORD?" the king demanded. "Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD; and I will not let Israel go." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/exodus/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should heed him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/exodus/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />"Who is this LORD and why should I obey him?" the king replied. "I refuse to let you and your people go!" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/exodus/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Pharaoh answered, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/exodus/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.</p><p class="hdg">who.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/3-19.htm">Exodus 3:19</a> But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a mighty hand.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/18-35.htm">2 Kings 18:35</a> Who are they among all the gods of the nations that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/32-15.htm">2 Chronicles 32:15,19</a> Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/21-15.htm">Job 21:15</a> Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/10-4.htm">Psalm 10:4</a> The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/12-4.htm">Psalm 12:4</a> Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/14-1.htm">Psalm 14:1</a> Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one.</p><p class="hdg">I know not.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/2-12.htm">1 Samuel 2:12</a> Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/16-3.htm">John 16:3</a> And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/1-28.htm">Romans 1:28</a> And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_thessalonians/1-8.htm">2 Thessalonians 1:8</a> In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.</p><p class="hdg">neither.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/3-19.htm">Exodus 3:19</a> But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a mighty hand.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/44-16.htm">Jeremiah 44:16,17</a> As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee: . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/exodus/5.htm">Pharaoh's First Refusal</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>After these things, Moses and Aaron went in, and said to Pharao: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go, that they may sacrifice to me in the desert. <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl">But he answered: Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.</span><span class="reftext">3</span>And they said: The God of the Hebrews hath called us, to go three days' journey into the wilderness, and to sacrifice to the Lord our God; lest a pestilence or the sword fall upon us.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/3-19.htm">Exodus 3:19</a></span><br />But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a mighty hand.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../exodus/7-17.htm">Exodus 7:17</a></span><br />Thus therefore saith the Lord: In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold I will strike with the rod, that is in my hand, the water of the river, and it shall be turned into blood.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../judges/2-10.htm">Judges 2:10</a></span><br />And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord and the works which he had done for Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_kings/18-35.htm">2 Kings 18:35</a></span><br />Who are they among all the gods of the nations that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/32-14.htm">2 Chronicles 32:14</a></span><br />Who is there among all the gods of the nations, which my fathers have destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of this hand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/32-15.htm">2 Chronicles 32:15</a></span><br />Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../nehemiah/9-10.htm">Nehemiah 9:10</a></span><br />And thou shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharao, and upon all his servants, and upon the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them: and thou madest thyself a name, as it is at this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/21-15.htm">Job 21:15</a></span><br />Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/42-13.htm">Jeremiah 42:13</a></span><br />But if you say: We will not dwell in this land, neither will we hearken to the voice of the Lord our God,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/48-26.htm">Jeremiah 48:26</a></span><br />Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord: and Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in derision.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../daniel/3-15.htm">Daniel 3:15</a></span><br />Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the statue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast the same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/50-8.htm">Besides</a> <a href="/exodus/4-15.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/exodus/4-9.htm">Hearken</a> <a href="/exodus/4-9.htm">Heed</a> <a href="/exodus/5-1.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/exodus/4-16.htm">Moreover</a> <a href="/genesis/27-43.htm">Obey</a> <a href="/exodus/5-1.htm">Pharaoh</a> <a href="/exodus/4-15.htm">Voice</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/exodus/12-37.htm">Besides</a> <a href="/exodus/6-12.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/exodus/6-12.htm">Hearken</a> <a href="/exodus/10-10.htm">Heed</a> <a href="/exodus/5-14.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/exodus/5-14.htm">Moreover</a> <a href="/exodus/12-24.htm">Obey</a> <a href="/exodus/5-5.htm">Pharaoh</a> <a href="/exodus/15-26.htm">Voice</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/exodus/5-2.htm">Exodus 5:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/exodus/5-2.htm">Exodus 5:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/exodus/5-2.htm">Exodus 5:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/exodus/5-2.htm">Exodus 5:2 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/exodus/5-2.htm">Exodus 5:2 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/exodus/5-2.htm">Exodus 5:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/exodus/5-2.htm">Exodus 5:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/exodus/5-2.htm">Exodus 5:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/exodus/5-2.htm">Exodus 5:2 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and besides But do go him His I is Israel know let LORD not obey Pharaoh said should that the to voice Who will<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/exodus/5-2.htm">OT Law: Exodus 5:2 Pharaoh said Who is Yahweh that (Exo. 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