Exodus 5 - Introduction

Exodus 5:1 to Exodus 6:1. The application to the Pharaoh, and its failure. Exodus 5:1 to Exodus 6:1 is for its greater part a continuous narrative from J: but at the beginning v.3 seems to be a doublet of v.1, and (especially) v.5 of v.4; hence most critics refer vv.1, 2, 4 to E.