Text -- Exodus 5:17 (NET)

5:17 But Pharaoh replied, “You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 5:17

¹ tn Heb “And he said.”

² tn Or “loafers.” The form נִרְפִּים (nirpim) is derived from the verb רָפָה (rafah), meaning “to be weak, to let oneself go.”