וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם לָ֚מָּה מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאַהֲרֹ֔ן תַּפְרִ֥יעוּ אֶת־הָעָ֖ם מִמַּֽעֲשָׂ֑יו לְכ֖וּ לְסִבְלֹתֵיכֶֽם׃
E o rei do Mitzrayim lhes disse: "Por que, Moshe e Aharon, vocês fazem o povo parar de suas tarefas? Vão para suas cargas."
Kli Yakar
Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. The word now is a proper response to Moses regarding what he said, Why have You done evil to this people? For Moses did not complain about Pharaoh not immediately sending the Israelites when he came to him, as the Holy One, blessed be He, had already told him twice that the king of Egypt would not allow them to go. Rather, he complained about how He made things worse for this people than before, because at the very least if his mission did not immediately help them, it should not have harmed them. Yet our eyes see that his mission did harm them.
Moses said, “Perhaps I was the cause of this because You sent to him a man with a heavy mouth and tongue like me. Therefore, Pharaoh’s anger was intensified because he said, ‘See, the Jews are mocking me,’ and if so, why did You send me?” Moses perhaps understood this from Pharaoh’s words, Why, Moses and Aaron, do you disturb the people, as he should have said, “Moses and Aaron, why do you disturb?” Rather, this is what he meant: “If some other suitable and eloquent person had been sent on this mission to disturb the people from their work, I would have been silent. But why Moses and Aaron, who are not fit for this mission, and they disturb the people from their work?” This angered him even more — that this mission was carried out by an unworthy messenger rather than someone appropriate for the task.
Moses said, “Perhaps I was the cause of this because You sent to him a man with a heavy mouth and tongue like me. Therefore, Pharaoh’s anger was intensified because he said, ‘See, the Jews are mocking me,’ and if so, why did You send me?” Moses perhaps understood this from Pharaoh’s words, Why, Moses and Aaron, do you disturb the people, as he should have said, “Moses and Aaron, why do you disturb?” Rather, this is what he meant: “If some other suitable and eloquent person had been sent on this mission to disturb the people from their work, I would have been silent. But why Moses and Aaron, who are not fit for this mission, and they disturb the people from their work?” This angered him even more — that this mission was carried out by an unworthy messenger rather than someone appropriate for the task.
Siftei Chakhamim
He said to her, “Go to your father’s house”. . . [Question: Why was Moshe concerned only about his wife, whereupon her sons she took on her own accord? The answer is:] Moshe was worried only for his wife, lest the Egyptians enslave her. But he was not worried for his sons because they would not be enslaved there. This is because the tribe of Leivi was not subjected to the enslavement, as Rashi explained in 5:4.
Chizkuni
כי פרוע הוא, “that the people were completely out of control;” they had completely abandoned their Creator’s commandments. The root פרע here is used in a similar sense as when Pharaoh accused Moses and Aaron as making the people completely unruly by promising them a holiday from hard labour for three days. ?למה תפריעו את העם ממעשיו (Exodus 5,4)