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 22:12

22:12 But if it was stolen ²  from him, ³  he will pay its owner.

[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.)

[22:12]  ² tn Both with this verb “stolen” and in the next clauses with “torn in pieces,” the text uses the infinitive absolute construction with less than normal emphasis; as Gesenius says, in conditional clauses, an infinitive absolute stresses the importance of the condition on which some consequence depends (GKC 342-43 §113.o).

[22:12]  ³ sn The point is that the man should have taken better care of the animal.