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God Promises Deliverance
Exodus 6:1–13 — God Promises Deliverance. Each verse below carries the full apparatus: the Berean Standard Bible, the vocalized original (tap any word), and a parsed breakdown of every term transcribed from the interlinear. Synthesized commentary, canonical threads, and the reading of Christ gather at the end, over the whole unit.
1But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand he will let the people go; because of My strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
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Yah·weh way·yō·mer ’el- mō·šeh ‘at·tāh ṯir·’eh ’ă·šer ’e·‘ĕ·śeh lə·p̄ar·‘ōh kî ḥă·zā·qāh ḇə·yāḏ yə·šal·lə·ḥêm ḥă·zā·qāh ū·ḇə·yāḏ yə·ḡā·rə·šêm mê·’ar·ṣōw
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And-said YHWH to Moses: “Now you-shall-see what I-will-do to-Pharaoh; for by-a-strong hand he-will-send-them-away, and-by-a-strong hand he-will-drive-them-out from-his-land.”
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There was encouragement in the very word "now." Moses' complaint was, that God delayed his coming, would not show himself, was "slack concerning his promise." In reply he is told that there is to be no longer any delay - the work is just about to commence. "Now shalt thou see." With a strong hand shall he let them go . The "strong hand" is not Pharaoh's, but God's.
Moses’ complaint was that God delayed, and “was slack as concerning His promise.” Hitherto He had not “delivered His people at all.” The answer,” Now shalt thou see,” is an assurance that there will be no more delay; the work is just about to begin, and Moses will behold it.
The earnestness of this remonstrance, and even its approach to irreverence, are quite in keeping with other notices of Moses' naturally impetuous character.Barnes reads Moses' preceding outburst (5:22-23) as the human foil this verse answers.
Moses did not receive any direct answer to the question, "Why hast Thou so evil-entreated this people?" He was to gather this first of all from his own experience as the leader of Israel. For the words were strictly applicable here: "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter" ( John 13:7 ).
2God also told Moses, “I am the LORD.
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’ĕ·lō·hîm way·ḏab·bêr ’el- mō·šeh way·yō·mer ’ê·lāw ’ă·nî Yah·weh
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And-spoke God to Moses, and-said to-him: “I am-YHWH.
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I am the Lord — That is, Jehovah, on which word the emphasis is laid, and it is to be wished that it had been always preserved in this translation, and especially in such passages as this, the sense of which entirely depends on the word. It signifies the same with, I AM THAT I AM, the fountain of being and blessedness, and of infinite perfection.
There appears to have been an interval of some months between the preceding events and this renewal of the promise to Moses. The oppression in the meantime was not merely driving the people to desperation, but preparing them by severe labor, varied by hasty wanderings in search of stubble, for the exertions and privations of the wilderness. Hence, the formal and solemn character of the announcements in the whole chapter.
3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.
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wā·’ê·rā ’el- ’aḇ·rā·hām ’el- yiṣ·ḥāq wə·’el- ya·‘ă·qōḇ bə·’êl šad·dāy ū·šə·mî Yah·weh lō nō·w·ḏa‘·tî lā·hem
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And-I-appeared to-Abraham, to-Isaac, and-to-Jacob as-El Shaddai; but-My-name YHWH I-was-not made-known to-them.
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He speaks not of the letters or syllables, but of the thing signified by that name. For that denotes all his perfections, and, amongst others, the eternity, constancy, and immutability of his nature and will, and the infallible certainty of his word and promises. And this, saith he, though it was believed by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, yet it was not experimentally known to them; for they only saw the promises afar off, Hebrews 11:13 .
Its primary idea is, no doubt, that of “overpowering strength.” (See the comment on Genesis 17:1 .) The primary idea of “Jehovah” is, on the contrary, that of absolute, eternal, unconditional, independent existence. Both names were probably of a great antiquity, and widely spread among Semitic races; but, at different times and in different places, special stress was laid on the one or on the other.
God Almighty - Rather, "El Shaddai," (שׁדי אל 'êl shadday), it is better to keep this as a proper name.
by my name, &c.—rather, interrogatively, by My name Jehovah was I not known to them? Am not I, the Almighty God, who pledged My honor for the fulfilment of the covenant, also the self-existent God who lives to accomplish it? Rest assured, therefore, that I shall bring it to pass.JFB favors the interrogative reading; the FSSB records it as one option, not the established sense.
4I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
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wə·ḡam hă·qi·mō·ṯî ’eṯ- bə·rî·ṯî ’it·tām lā·ṯêṯ lā·hem ’eṯ- ’e·reṣ kə·nā·‘an ’êṯ ’e·reṣ mə·ḡu·rê·hem ’ă·šer- gā·rū ḇāh
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And-also I-established My-covenant with-them, to-give to-them the-land of-Canaan, the-land of-their-sojournings in-which they-sojourned.
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Established means ‘set up,’ ‘concluded,’ not ‘gave effect to’: to ‘establish a covenant’ is a standing expression in P, Genesis 6:18 ; Genesis 9:9 ; Genesis 9:11 ; Genesis 9:17 ; Genesis 17:7 ; Genesis 17:19 ; Genesis 17:21 (elsewhere, in the same sense, only Ezekiel 16:60 ; Ezekiel 16:62 ). P never uses the ordinary Heb. expression, ‘ cut a covenant’The “P” label reflects the documentary-source theory the Cambridge editors held; the FSSB cites only the lexical observation, not the source-critical frame.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were occupants of Canaan merely by sufferance: they were allowed to dwell in it because it was not half peopled; but the ownership was recognised as belonging to the Canaanite nations, Hittites and others
the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers; not being in actual possession of any part of it, but lived as pilgrims and strangers in it, as their posterity now did in another land not theirs; see Hebrews 11:9 .
5Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
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wə·ḡam ’ă·nî šā·ma‘·tî ’eṯ- na·’ă·qaṯ bə·nê yiś·rā·’êl ’ă·šer miṣ·ra·yim ma·‘ă·ḇi·ḏîm ’ō·ṯām wā·’ez·kōr ’eṯ- bə·rî·ṯî
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And-also I have-heard the-groaning of-the-sons-of-Israel, whom Egypt is-enslaving them, and-I-remembered My-covenant.
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The pronoun is emphatic,— I , the same who gave the promise of v. 4.
For the Lord is not only the eternal and immutable Being in his purposes and promises, and a covenant keeping God; but he is compassionate and merciful, and sympathizes with his people in all their afflictions; he takes notice of their sighs and groans, as he now did those of his people in Egypt
I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel — He means their groaning on occasion of the late hardships put upon them. God takes notice of the increase of his people’s calamities, and observes how their enemies grow upon them.
6Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
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lā·ḵên ’ĕ·mōr liḇ·nê- yiś·rå̄·ʾēl ’ă·nî Yah·weh wə·hō·w·ṣê·ṯî ’eṯ·ḵem mit·ta·ḥaṯ siḇ·lōṯ miṣ·ra·yim wə·hiṣ·ṣal·tî ’eṯ·ḵem mê·‘ă·ḇō·ḏā·ṯām wə·ḡā·’al·tî ’eṯ·ḵem nə·ṭū·yāh biz·rō·w·a‘ gə·ḏō·lîm ū·ḇiš·p̄ā·ṭîm
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Therefore say to-the-sons-of-Israel: “I am YHWH, and-I-will-bring-you-out from-under the-burdens of-Egypt, and-I-will-deliver you from-their-bondage, and-I-will-redeem you with-an-arm stretched-out and-with-judgments great.
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I will redeem you. —The idea of God purchasing, or redeeming, Israel is here brought forward for the first time. Later on we learn that the redemption was accomplished in a twofold way—(1) by the long series of wonders, culminating in the tenth plague, whereby they were taken out of Pharaoh’s hand, and ceased to be his slaves, becoming instead the servants of God; and (2) by being led through the Red Sea
With a stretched out arm - The figure is common and quite intelligible; it may have struck Moses and the people the more forcibly since they were familiar with the hieroglyphic which represents might by two outstretched arms.
With a stretched-out arm, i.e. my almighty power. A metaphor from a man that stretcheth out his arm, and puts forth all his strength to give the greater blow. With great judgments, i.e. punishments justly inflicted upon them, as the word judging and judgments is oft used
7I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
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wə·lā·qaḥ·tî ’eṯ·ḵem lî lə·‘ām wə·hā·yî·ṯî lā·ḵem lê·lō·hîm wî·ḏa‘·tem kî ’ă·nî Yah·weh ’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem ham·mō·w·ṣî ’eṯ·ḵem mit·ta·ḥaṯ siḇ·lō·wṯ miṣ·rā·yim
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And-I-will-take you to-Me for-a-people, and-I-will-be to-you for-a-God; and-you-shall-know that I am YHWH your-God, the-One-bringing you-out from-under the-burdens of-Egypt.
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The selection of Israel as a “peculiar people” did not involve the abandonment of all other nations, as we see by the instances of Balaam, Ruth, Job, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius the Mede, Cyrus, and others. God always continued to “govern all the nations upon the earth”
God intended their happiness: I will take you to me for a people, a peculiar people, and I will be to you a God. More than this we need not ask, we cannot have, to make us happy. He intended his own glory: Ye shall know that I am the Lord.
I will take you to me for a people — A peculiar people; and I will be to you a God — And more than this we need not ask, we cannot have, to make us happy.
8And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”
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wə·hê·ḇê·ṯî ’eṯ·ḵem ’el- hā·’ā·reṣ ’ă·šer nā·śā·ṯî ’eṯ- yā·ḏî lā·ṯêṯ ’ō·ṯāh lə·’aḇ·rā·hām lə·yiṣ·ḥāq ū·lə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ wə·nā·ṯat·tî ’ō·ṯāh lā·ḵem mō·w·rā·šāh ’ă·nî Yah·weh
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And-I-will-bring you to the-land that I-lifted My-hand to-give it to-Abraham, to-Isaac, and-to-Jacob; and-I-will-give it to-you-as-a-possession. I am YHWH.”
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lifted up my hand ] i.e. sware ; the expression being derived from the custom of raising the hand to heaven when taking an oath.
The whole is one sentence, and implies that, as being Immutable and Eternal, He would assuredly give it them.
I am the Lord; whose counsels of old are faithfulness and truth; whose promises are yea and amen; whose gifts and calling are without repentance; and who is able also to perform whatever he has said he will do.
God's faithfulness is pledged to the performance of the terms of the covenant on his part. I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord. Rather, "I will give it you for an heritage, I the Lord" (or "I Jehovah," or "I the Eternal One"). "You have the pledge of my Eternity and Immutability that it shall be yours."
9Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.
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mō·šeh way·ḏab·bêr kên ’el- bə·nê yiś·rā·’êl miq·qō·ṣer rū·aḥ qā·šāh ū·mê·‘ă·ḇō·ḏāh wə·lō šā·mə·‘ū ’el- mō·šeh
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And-spoke Moses thus to the-sons-of-Israel; but-they-did-not listen to Moses, from-shortness of-spirit and-from-hard bondage.
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The first announcement of coming deliverance elated them with a hope to which they had been long strangers. Their spirits sprang to the message, and readily accepted it. But now they had been chilled by disappointment. The only result of their leader’s interference hitherto had been to increase their misery
So hard a thing it is to show true obedience under the cross.
Their minds were so oppressed with their present burdens and future expectations, that they could not believe nor hope for any deliverance, but deemed it impossible; and having been once deceived in their hopes, they now quite despaired
but from anguish, inward pressure, which prevents a man from breathing properly. Thus the early belief of the Israelites was changed into the despondency of unbelief through the increase of their oppression.
10So the LORD said to Moses,
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Yah·weh way·ḏab·bêr ’el- mō·šeh lê·mōr
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And-spoke YHWH to Moses, saying:
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When Moses repeats his baffled arguments, he is argued with no longer, but God gives him and Aaron a charge, both to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh. God's authority is sufficient to answer all objections, and binds all to obey, without murmuring or disputingHenry's note spans vv. 10-13; cited here for the renewed-command frame this verse opens.
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... At another time, and renewed his orders to him to go again to Pharaoh, and require their dismission
11“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”
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bō ḏab·bêr ’el- par·‘ōh me·leḵ miṣ·rā·yim bə·nê- yiś·rā·’êl wî·šal·laḥ ’eṯ- mê·’ar·ṣōw
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“Go in, speak to Pharaoh king-of Egypt, that-he-send-out the-sons-of-Israel from-his-land.”
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The second message was an advance upon the first. The first asked only for permission to enter the wilderness, much of which was within the limits of Egypt; the second was a demand that the Israelites should be allowed “to go out of the land.” Such is the way of Providence generally. If we refuse a light cross, a heavier cross is laid on us.
God repeats his precepts before he begins his punishments. Those that have oft been called in vain to leave their sins, yet must be called again and again.
Go out of his land - Moses is now bidden to demand not a permission for a three days' journey ( Exodus 3:18 note), which might be within the boundaries of Egypt, but for departure from the land.
12But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
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Yah·weh lê·mōr lip̄·nê mō·šeh way·ḏab·bêr hên bə·nê- yiś·rā·’êl lō- šā·mə·‘ū ’ê·lay wə·’êḵ p̄ar·‘ōh yiš·mā·‘ê·nî wa·’ă·nî ‘ă·ral śə·p̄ā·ṯā·yim
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And-spoke Moses before YHWH, saying: “Behold, the-sons-of-Israel have-not listened to-me; and-how shall-Pharaoh listen to-me, and-I am-uncircumcised of-lips?”
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Uncircumcised lips - An uncircumcised ear is one that does not hear clearly; an uncircumcised heart one slow to receive and understand warnings; uncircumcised lips, such as cannot speak fluently. The recurrence of the hesitation of Moses is natural; great as was the former trial this was far more severe; yet his words always imply fear of failure, not of personal danger
So here it notes Moses’s inability to clothe God’s commands in such words as might prevail with Pharaoh. But this was a great weakness of faith, as if God could not effect his purpose, because the instrument was unfit.
“Uncircumcised” is used, according to the Hebrew idiom, for any imperfection which interferes with efficiency. An “uncircumcised ear,” is explained in Jeremiah 6 to be an ear that “cannot hearken;”
13Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
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Yah·weh way·ḏab·bêr ’el- mō·šeh ’a·hă·rōn way·ṣaw·wêm ’el- wə·’el- bə·nê yiś·rā·’êl wə·’el- par·‘ōh me·leḵ miṣ·rā·yim lə·hō·w·ṣî bə·nê- yiś·rā·’êl ’eṯ- mê·’e·reṣ miṣ·rā·yim
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And-spoke YHWH to Moses and-to-Aaron, and-charged them concerning the-sons-of-Israel and-concerning Pharaoh king-of Egypt, to-bring-out the-sons-of-Israel from-the-land of-Egypt.
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All the preliminaries were over - the action of the Exodus itself was about to begin. A dramatist would have made Acts 1 . end and Acts 2 commence. A poet would have begun a new canto. In the imperfect bibliography of the time, it was thought best to make a division by a parenthetic insertion.The Pulpit Commentary's “Acts” here means stage-acts of a drama, not the New Testament book.
The reluctance and opposition of Moses led to an express “charge” being laid upon himself and Aaron, the details of which are given in Exodus 7:1-9 .
Unto Moses and unto Aaron - The final and formal charge to the two brothers is given, as might be expected, before the plagues are denounced. With this verse begins a new section of the history.
The verse-by-verse work is done. What follows gathers the whole unit. All three layers below are machine-generated (⚙). Weigh them; they have no authority.
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The unit opens not with serene revelation but as a reply to Moses' bitter charge that God had been “slack concerning His promise.” Charles Ellicott frames it exactly: “Moses' complaint was that God delayed… The answer, ‘Now shalt thou see,’ is an assurance that there will be no more delay.” The single Hebrew word ‘attāh (“now”) does the work; the Pulpit Commentary hears “encouragement in the very word ‘now.’” Keil & Delitzsch note that Moses gets no direct answer to his “Why hast Thou so evil-entreated this people?” — he must learn it “from his own experience,” for “what I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter” (their citation of John 13:7). The doubled ḥăzāqāh / yāḏ, “strong hand,” is God's, not Pharaoh's (so the Pulpit, Cambridge, Gill, K&D alike); and the closing yəḡārəšêm, “drive them out,” will be fulfilled verbatim when Egypt itself thrusts Israel away (Exodus 12:33).
The narrator shifts from ’āmar (“said,” v. 1) to the weighty dābar (“spoke,” v. 2), and God begins the oration with two bare words: ’ănî YHWH. Joseph Benson insists “the emphasis is laid” on this name, “the sense of which entirely depends on the word” — “the fountain of being… and of infinite perfection.” Then comes the unit's famous crux (v. 3): God appeared to the fathers “as ’ēl šadday,” but by His name YHWH “was I not made known to them.” The voices do not agree, and the FSSB does not pretend they do. Matthew Poole answers that God “speaks not of the letters or syllables, but of the thing signified by that name,” known to the patriarchs only “darkly and imperfectly” (citing Hebrews 11:13). Jamieson, Fausset & Brown press the interrogative reading — “by My name Jehovah was I not known to them?” Albert Barnes simply pleads to keep “El Shaddai” untranslated as “a proper name.” The shared rare lexeme šadday binds this verse to Genesis 17:1, where the name was first given (per Ellicott and K&D).
The body of the oration is one long act of covenant memory. God hăqimōṯî (“established,” Hifil of qûm) His covenant — the Cambridge Bible marks the priestly idiom, “‘set up,’ ‘concluded,’ not ‘gave effect to.’” The fathers held the land only as məḡurêhem, “their sojournings,” dwelling “merely by sufferance” (Ellicott), “strangers in it, as their posterity now did in another land” (John Gill, citing Hebrews 11:9). Then v. 5 recalls the rare cry-word na’ăqaṯ (“groaning,” 4 occurrences) and wā’ezkōr (“I remembered”) in near-verbatim recall of Exodus 2:24 — a verbal link the Verifier confirms (shared nᵉ’āqāh, zākar, bᵉrîyth). On this ground come the great pledges of vv. 6–8, which K&D parses into three: deliverance (“bring out / deliver / redeem”), adoption (“I will take you to Me for a people”), and inheritance (“I will bring you to the land”). Ellicott notes that “the idea of God… redeeming Israel is here brought forward for the first time” — the kinsman-redeemer verb gā’al. Barnes and the Pulpit Commentary both observe that the “stretched-out arm” would strike a people who knew “the hieroglyphic which represents might by two outstretched arms.” The whole closes (v. 8) where it began, with ’ănî YHWH — the Name as the guarantee that, “as being Immutable and Eternal, He would assuredly give it them” (Ellicott).
The most comfortable words in the chapter fall on deaf ears. The people “did not listen… miqqōṣer rûaḥ,” which K&D renders “from anguish, inward pressure, which prevents a man from breathing properly,” so that “the early belief of the Israelites was changed into the despondency of unbelief.” Poole: “having been once deceived in their hopes, they now quite despaired.” The Geneva Bible's margin distills it: “So hard a thing it is to show true obedience under the cross.” The same despair infects Moses (v. 12): if Israel did not šāma‘ (“listen”), how shall Pharaoh? — and he is ‘ăral śəpāṯāyim, “uncircumcised of lips,” which Barnes ranges beside the uncircumcised ear and heart, and Poole judges “a great weakness of faith, as if God could not effect his purpose, because the instrument was unfit.” God answers not with argument but with authority: He wayṣawwēm, “charged them” (v. 13). Matthew Henry: “God's authority is sufficient to answer all objections, and binds all to obey, without murmuring or disputing.” The unit ends on its keynote verb, ləhôṣî’, “to bring out” — the Exodus in a single infinitive.
A fallible reading, offered to be tested against the text. The architecture of Exodus 6:1–9 is a deliberate frame: it is bracketed by the divine self-naming — “I am YHWH” opens (v. 2) and seals (v. 8) the oration — and everything between is what that Name does. The Name is not bare metaphysics; it is built from the being-verb hāyāh (v. 7's “I will be to you for a God” is the same root as ’ehyeh, “I AM,” Exodus 3:14). So the God who simply is binds His own being to a band of brick-makers: pure existence placed at the service of covenant love. And note the cruel symmetry the Hebrew presses with the verb šāma‘ (“hear/listen”): God hears the groaning (v. 5), but the people will not hear the promise (v. 9), nor will Pharaoh hear Moses (v. 12). The barrier to redemption is never God's reluctance — He has heard, remembered, sworn — but a creaturely deafness born of crushed breath (qōṣer rûaḥ) and uncircumcised lips. The chapter therefore quietly teaches that deliverance does not wait on Israel's faith to be adequate; it proceeds on the strength of the Name alone. That is grace before the people could receive it — the gospel-shape of the Exodus. This is the tool's synthesis, not Scripture; weigh it.
The God who simply IS bound His own being to a band of brick-makers — redemption moves on the strength of the Name, not the adequacy of Israel's faith.
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Exodus 6:5 is a near-verbatim recall of Exodus 2:24. Both verses pair the rare cry-word nᵉ’āqāh (“groaning,” found in only 4 verses of the whole Hebrew Bible) with zākar (“remember”) and bᵉrîyth (“covenant”). K&D explicitly calls v. 5 “a repetition of Exodus 2:24.” The Verifier confirms all three lexemes are shared; the rarity of nᵉ’āqāh makes this a verbal quotation, not a generic theme.
Exodus 2:24
basis: shared lexemes: H5009 nᵉʼâqâh (RARE — in only 4 vv), H2142 zâkar, H1285 bᵉrîyth, H8085 shâmaʻ (Verifier: Exodus 6:5 ↔ Exodus 2:24)
The same rare verb nᵉ’āqāh (“groaning”) recurs in Judges 2:18, where “the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning” and raised up judges to save Israel. The verbal tie binds the Exodus pattern to the cycle of the judges: Israel's inarticulate cry is the trigger of divine rescue across the canon. The link is lexical (the 4-occurrence word), though the contexts differ — Egypt vs. the Canaanite oppressors — so the FSSB records the shared-word basis without claiming literary dependence.
Judges 2:18
basis: shared lexeme: H5009 nᵉʼâqâh (RARE — in only 4 vv) (Verifier: Exodus 6:5 ↔ Judges 2:18)
Exodus 6:8 calls the promised land a môwrāšāh (“possession / heritage”) — not the usual naḥălāh but a rare term in only 9 verses. It reappears in Deuteronomy 33:4, where the Torah is “the inheritance (môwrāšāh) of the assembly of Jacob.” The same rare word links land and law as twin heritages of Israel; both verses also share the name Yaʻăqôb (Jacob). The Verifier reports this as a verbal link on the strength of the rare môwrāšāh.
Deuteronomy 33:4
basis: shared lexemes: H4181 môwrâshâh (RARE — in only 9 vv), H3290 Yaʻăqôb (Verifier: Exodus 6:8 ↔ Deuteronomy 33:4)
Exodus 6:3 looks back to Genesis 17:1, the moment God revealed Himself to Abraham: “I am El Shaddai.” Both verses share the rare divine name Shadday (in only 48 vv) together with ’ēl (“God”) and rā’āh (“appear/see”) — the very verb of Exodus 6:3's “I appeared.” Ellicott and K&D both name Genesis 17:1 as the source-text. The Verifier classes the link as structural/thematic on its shared-lexeme count; the FSSB notes that the rarity of Shadday and the matching theophany-verb make it a strong near-verbal echo, and lets it stand at the structural tier rather than over-claiming quotation.
Genesis 17:1
basis: shared lexemes: H7706 Shadday (RARE divine name — in only 48 vv), H410 ʼêl, H7200 râʼâh (“appear”) (Verifier: Exodus 6:3 ↔ Genesis 17:1)
Exodus 6:6's gā’al (“redeem,” the next-of-kin's word) is the seed of Isaiah's gospel of the Redeemer: “Fear not, for I have redeemed (gā’al) you… you are Mine” (Isaiah 43:1). The same verb runs the same logic — God reclaiming His own as a kinsman reclaims lost family. The Verifier reports the shared lexeme gā’al; the link is thematic-structural (a shared redemption motif and verb), not a quotation, since Isaiah does not cite Exodus.
Isaiah 43:1
basis: shared lexeme: H1350 gâʼal (“redeem,” kinsman-redeemer) (Verifier: Exodus 6:6 ↔ Isaiah 43:1)
Exodus 6:6–7's promise to bring Israel out “from under the burdens of the Egyptians” (sᵉbâlâh) is the verbal undoing of the chapters that began their misery. Exodus 1:11 first set taskmasters over them “to afflict them with their burdens (sᵉbâlâh)”; Exodus 5:4–5 has Pharaoh angrily ordering Moses to make the people leave off from their sᵉbâlâh. The burden-word is rare (sᵉbâlâh, in only 6 vv), so the Verifier scores 6:6 ↔ 1:11 and 6:6 ↔ 5:4 as verbal/quotation links: the very noun that named the slavery now names what God removes. The wider Pharaoh-and-now frame (6:1 ↔ 5:5, sharing Parʻôh and ʻattāh, “now”) is the looser structural setting; the FSSB does not inflate the 6:1 ↔ 1:11 tie, which shares only the common name Pharaoh, into a verbal one.
Exodus 1:11 · Exodus 5:4 · Exodus 5:5
basis: shared lexeme: H5450 çᵉbâlâh (RARE “burden” — in only 6 vv) (Verifier: Exodus 6:6 ↔ Exodus 1:11, and Exodus 6:6 ↔ Exodus 5:4, which also shares H4714 Mitsrayim). The looser 6:1 ↔ Exodus 5:5 frame is structural only (shared H6547 Parʻôh, H6258 ʻattâh); 6:1 ↔ Exodus 1:11 shares only H6547 Parʻôh and is not claimed as verbal.
Exodus 6:4 deeds Canaan to Israel as “the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned” (məḡurêhem, root mâgûwr). The noun is rare (mâgûwr, in only 10 vv) and is the same word Jacob uses before Pharaoh — “the years of my sojourning” (Genesis 47:9) — and the word of the Abrahamic land-grant, “the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham” (Genesis 28:4). The Verifier confirms the rare mâgûwr as the shared basis (and Genesis 28:4 also shares the giving-verb nâthan): the covenant promise of v. 4 is being quoted forward from the patriarchal narratives, where the fathers held the land only as strangers. Gill makes the point from Hebrews 11:9 — they “lived as pilgrims and strangers in it, as their posterity now did in another land not theirs.”
Genesis 28:4 · Genesis 47:9
basis: shared lexeme: H4033 mâgûwr (RARE “sojourning” — in only 10 vv) (Verifier: Exodus 6:4 ↔ Genesis 47:9; Exodus 6:4 ↔ Genesis 28:4, which also shares H5414 nâthan, “give”)
Exodus 6:6 promises redemption “with an outstretched arm” (zᵉrôwaʻ). The same word turns up, in chilling reversal, in Ezekiel 30:24, where the LORD says of Egypt's king, “I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon… but I will break Pharaoh's arms” — and that oracle is steeped in the rare cry-word of this very unit, nᵉ’āqāh (“groaning,” the wounded Pharaoh shall “groan before him”). The same divine arm that is stretched out to redeem Israel is the arm that breaks the oppressor; Israel's groaning that God heard (6:5) becomes Egypt's groaning under judgment. The Verifier reports the shared zᵉrôwaʻ (and, against Exodus 6:5, the rare nᵉ’āqāh); because the link is a shared motif and word rather than a quotation of Exodus, the FSSB tiers it structural/thematic.
Ezekiel 30:24
basis: shared lexeme: H2220 zᵉrôwaʻ (“arm”) (Verifier: Exodus 6:6 ↔ Ezekiel 30:24); Ezekiel 30:24 also shares the rare H5009 nᵉʼâqâh with Exodus 6:5 (Verifier: Exodus 6:5 ↔ Ezekiel 30:24)
AI-generated reading; weigh it against the text.
Exodus 6:6 introduces, “for the first time” (Ellicott), the idea of God redeeming Israel — gā’al, the next-of-kin who buys back a relative's person and forfeited inheritance. The verb is irreducibly familial: redemption requires a kinsman. The New Testament reads the incarnation as God becoming that kinsman — “since the children share in flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity… that He might redeem” (Hebrews 2:14–15; cf. Galatians 4:4–5). The Exodus-redemption from Egypt is the historical type; the cross is its fulfillment, Christ “redeeming us from the curse” (Galatians 3:13). This is a cross-Testament reading (Hebrew gā’al ↔ Greek lytroō / agorazō): no shared Strong's number is possible, so the link is typological, not verbal — grounded in the shared kinsman-redeemer concept that the apostolic writers themselves apply.
Exodus 6:6 · Galatians 4:4-5 · Hebrews 2:14-15
Exodus 6:7 first gives the nation the covenant formula — “I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you for a God” — built from hāyāh, the being-verb of the divine Name (v. 2). The formula runs the length of Scripture (Jeremiah 31:33; Ezekiel 36:28) and reaches its consummation in the New Testament: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man… they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God” (Revelation 21:3; cf. 2 Corinthians 6:16). The God who bound His being to slaves at the Exodus is the God who tabernacles among men in Christ (“the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,” John 1:14). Because this spans Hebrew and Greek, the FSSB tiers it typological/structural, not verbal: the apostolic writers themselves carry the formula forward, so the attestation is ancient and widely held.
Exodus 6:7 · 2 Corinthians 6:16 · Revelation 21:3
Moses, charged to deliver, twice falters — “uncircumcised of lips,” measuring Pharaoh by Israel's deafness (6:12) — and the people's crushed breath (6:9) cannot receive the promise. The chapter exposes the inadequacy of every human mediator and even of the people's faith; redemption proceeds only on the strength of “I am YHWH.” The New Testament reads this as anticipating a Mediator who is “faithful… worthy of more glory than Moses” (Hebrews 3:3–6), whose lips were never uncircumcised (“never has a man spoken like this man,” John 7:46) and who does not falter before the powers. This is a typological reading by contrast — Moses' weakness throwing the perfect Mediator into relief — marked novel here in its precise framing, though the “greater than Moses” theme is itself ancient and explicit in Hebrews.
Exodus 6:12 · Hebrews 3:3-6
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Named voices, quoted verbatim from public-domain works:
On the crux of 6:3. The statement that God was “not made known” to the patriarchs by the name YHWH visibly contradicts Genesis (15:7; 22:14; 28:13), where the name is used. The FSSB records the historic solutions — Poole's “thing signified, not the syllables,” the comparative reading (“known only darkly”), and JFB's interrogative (“was I not known?”) — as options held by the sources, not as a settled verdict. We take no position the parses do not support.
On “P” and source labels. Several cited voices (Cambridge Bible especially) tag verses with documentary-source sigla (J, E, P, H). The FSSB quotes their lexical and grammatical observations only; the source-critical framework is theirs, reported verbatim where it appears, not endorsed.
On cross-Testament threads. The Christ readings (redeemer; covenant formula; greater-than-Moses) connect Hebrew verses to Greek New Testament texts. Because Strong's numbering does not span the two languages, none of these can be tiered “verbal / quotation” on shared lexemes; they are tiered typological/structural, and rest on concept-level continuity that the apostolic writers themselves draw.
On the Verifier. Every Hebrew↔Hebrew thread badge here was produced by running verifier.py pair on the two references; the shared Strong's lexemes named in each basis are the Verifier's computed output, not the author's assertion. Where the Verifier returned “structural/thematic” (e.g. 6:3↔Genesis 17:1, on a rare but multiply-shared name), the FSSB has not upgraded the tier to “verbal,” preferring to under-claim. No thread in this unit is flagged for disputed provenance; the one genuinely contested point — the 6:3 name-crux — is handled in the verse notes and here, not by a thread.
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