Keluaran 5:5

5:5 Pharaoh was thinking, ¹  “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

Keluaran 34:30

34:30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone; ²  and they were afraid to approach him.

[5:5]  ¹ tn Heb “And Pharaoh said.” This is not the kind of thing that Pharaoh is likely to have said to Moses, and so it probably is what he thought or reasoned within himself. Other passages (like Exod 2:14; 3:3) show that the verb “said” can do this. (See U. Cassuto, Exodus, 67.)

[34:30]  ² tn This clause is introduced by the deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh); it has the force of pointing to something surprising or sudden.