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Exodus
Exodus
1:1-4 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came
into Egypt. Every man and his household came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon,
Levi and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and
Asher.
Who
were these guys?
Exodus
1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy
souls, for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus
1:6 And Joseph died and all his brethren and all that generation.
Exodus
1:7 And the children of Israel
were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and waxed exceeding
mighty and the land was filled with them.
Exodus 1:8-10 Now there arose up a new king over
Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the
people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Come on,
let us deal wisely with them, lest they continue to multiply and it comes
to pass that when there falls out any war, they join also unto our enemies
and fight against us and so let us get them out of the land.
Exodus
1:8-10 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.(blinded
by the new power he possessed, his greedy and controlling ideas kept him
from being interested enough to examine that system of government which
Joseph had established; typical of the dark
side he was on, he was closed-minded
to anything not of his low consciousness
corrupt ways:.Isaiah
59:8; Romans 3:10-18).
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children
of Israel are more and mightier than we. Come on, let us deal wisely.(shrewdly).with
them, lest they continue to multiply and it comes to pass that when
there falls out any war, they join also unto our enemies and fight against
us and so let us get them out of the land.
The Egyptians
were worried the great number of Israelites would rise up against them.
The Egyptians treated the Israelites badly in hopes they would all leave
for some other place, but they stayed around, like people today who do
nothing and just put up with oppressive satanic governments.
Note how the
first thought of the Egyptians was not cooperation with, but rather fear,
fear that leads to control and power over others through treating others
badly, through intimidation
by killing them. Such is the way of the cunning,
but high consciousness deficient.ignorant.dark
side.influenced
ones who view others as separate
and feel they possess the right to put others down and to keep them under
control using various methods. Nothing
has really changed since this beginning of man on Earth. It's the same
today in more ways than most know; a few of them 1,
2,
3.
Notes on verses
8-10: comprised
from Barnes
Notes: 'A new king' is a phrase not found elsewhere. It is understood
by most commentators to imply that he did not succeed his predecessor in
the natural order of descent
and inheritance. He 'arose up over Egypt' occupying the land, as it would
seem, on different terms from the king whose place he took, either by usurpation
or conquest. The fact that he knew not Joseph implies
a complete separation from the traditions
of Lower Egypt. At present the generality
of Egyptian scholars
identify this Pharaoh with Rameses II, but all the conditions of the narrative
are fulfilled in the individual of Amosis I, aka,
Aahmes, the head of the 18th Dynasty. He was the descendant of the old
Theban sovereigns, but his family was tributary
to the Dynasty of the Shepherds, the Hyksos of Manetho, then ruling in
the North of Egypt. Amosis married an Ethiopian princess and in the third
year of his reign captured Avaris or Zoan, the capital of the Hyksos and
completed the expulsion
of that race. Such are they with a takeover mentality. They were the satanic
cabal
of old. Were they of humanity
or hybrids?
Exodus
1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with
their burdens.(made
what they did to be harder on them; like usury
and taxes and their increases are on people today). And they
built for Pharaoh treasure cities.(how
the way of Satan has always been, 'me', 'me', 'me'), Pithom
and Raamses.
Exodus
1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and
grew. And they.(the
Egyptians).were grieved.(original
'loathed', 'abhorred').because
of the children of Israel.
The
way of the dark side ones is fear.
Exodus
1:13 And the Egyptians made the children
of Israel to serve with rigour.
Exodus
1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter
and in brick and in all manner of service in the field. All their service,
wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Original
for word 'rigour' is 'break apart', that is, the Egyptians were harsh
in their treatment of the nation slaves called Israel and why? verses 7
and 12 above.
Exodus
1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the
name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah.
Exodus 1:16 And he said, When you do the office
of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them upon the stools, if it be
a son, then you shall kill him, but if it be a daughter then she shall
live.
Exodus
1:16 And he said, When you do the office of a midwife
to the Hebrew
women and see them upon the stools.(giving
birth in a way that the baby comes out downward into the hands of the midwives,
this way being much easier on the mother and baby), if it be a son,
then you shall kill him.(first
recorded attempt at depopulation),
but if it be a daughter then she shall live.
Exodus
1:17 But the midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt commanded
them, but saved the men children alive.
The
true God of all creation came first in the hearts of these women:.Deuteronomy
5:29.
Exodus
1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said unto them,
Why have you done this thing and have saved the men children alive?
Exodus
1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew
women are not as the Egyptian women, for they are lively.(because
of their exercise they were healthier).and
are delivered ere.(before).the
midwives come in unto them.
Exodus 1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the
midwives and the people multiplied and waxed very mighty.
Exodus
1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives.(but
they told untruths {short story starts above},
but the Creator looks on the heart {1Samuel
16:7}; so did Rahab the prostitute
lie and others
listed here as well).and the people
multiplied and waxed
very mighty.
Exodus
1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he
made them houses.
Where
before they had lived in tents where it was easier to scatter the children
to protect them if there was a threat, now they had houses made by Pharoah
so they could be more easily watched to see if any male children were in
the houses and where surprise visits at night by Pharaoh's men would check
up on them. The satanic cabal was right from the beginning.
Exodus
1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is
born you shall cast into the river and every daughter you shall save alive.
Exodus
2:4-7 And his sister stood afar
off, to see what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came
down to wash herself at the river and her maidens walked along by the river's
side and when she saw the ark among the flags.(reeds,
bulrushes), she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had
opened it, she saw the child. And behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion
on him and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then said his.(Mose's
sister Miriam came closer when she heard what Pharaoh's daughter was saying).sister
to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a nurse for you of the Hebrew
women, that she may nurse the child for you?
Exodus
2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called
the child's mother.
Exodus
2:9,10 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away and
nurse it for me and I will give you your wages. And the woman took the
child and nursed it. And the child grew and she brought him unto Pharaoh's
daughter and he became her son. And she called his name Moses. And she
said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Exodus
2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that
he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens.
Comprised
with.Clark's
Commentary:.The
Egyptians made made the lives of the Israelites bitter by means of heavy
burdens, so that they became weary
of life, through the severity
of their grievous.servitude.
Hard.bondage
was the general.character
of their life in Egypt, a life painful and oppressive
enough in itself, but made much more so by the cruel.manner
of their treatment while performing their tasks in mortar
and in brick. First, in digging the clay, kneading
and preparing it and secondly, forming it into bricks and drying them in
the Sun. Their service in the field included carrying these materials to
the places where they were to be formed into buildings, serving the builders
employed in those public works.
Josephus
says."The Egyptians
contrived
a variety of
ways to afflict
the Israelites. They enjoined
them to cut a great number of channels
for the river and to build walls for their cities and ramparts,
that they might restrain
the river and hinder
its waters from stagnating
upon its overrunning its own banks. The Egyptians also set them to build
pyramids
and wore them out also forcing them to learn all sorts of mechanic.arts
and got them accustomed
to severe hard
labor."
Exodus
2:12-14 And he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
And he looked this way and that way and when he saw that there was no man,
he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. And when he went out the
second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together. And he said
to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smiting you your fellow? And he said,
Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Intend you to kill me as you
killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared and said Surely this thing is known.
Moses
was watched, but he figured no one was around.
Exodus
2:15 Now when Pharaoh
heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses
fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian and he sat
down by a well.
Exodus
2:16,17 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters and they came
and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. And
the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them
and watered their flock.
Exodus
2:18 And when they came to Reuel.(also
called Raguel {Numbers 10:29}
and also called Jethro {Exodus 3:1},
his official title which means 'excellency').their
father, he said, How is it that you are come so soon today?
Exodus
2:19-21 And they said, an Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of
the shepherds and also drew water enough for us and watered the flock.
And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that you have
left the man? call him, that he may eat with us. And Moses was content
to dwell with the man and he gave Moses Zipporah
his daughter.
Exodus
2:22,23 And she bare him a son and he called his name Gershom.(the
name Gershom means 'expulsion'),
for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. And it came to pass
in process of time, that the king of Egypt died and the children of Israel
sighed by reason of the bondage.(one
king of Egypt dies and another, probably just as bad, took over).and
they cried and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
It
was then Mose's time to return to Egypt:.Exodus
4:21; Acts 7:23.
Exodus
2:24 And God heard their groaning and God remembered his
covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.
Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob.
Exodus
3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest
of Midian and he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to
the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
Exodus
3:2,3 And the angel of the
Lord appeared unto him.(speaking
of Moses {one verse above}).in
a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold, the
bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I
will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
Exodus
3:4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto
him.(that
is, an angel; God uses angels
for such things).out of the
midst of the bushes area and said Moses, Moses. And he said Here am I.
Exodus
3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh.hither.
Put off your shoes from off your feet for the place whereon you stand is
holy
ground.
Exodus
3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. And Moses
hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God.
To
look upon God.
Exodus
3:7 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt
and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know their
sorrows;
Exodus
3:8 And I am come down.(words
'come down' not in original; simply means 'I will come' or 'go' and deliver
them; or I'll deal with it now).to
deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians.(*).and
to bring them up out of that land unto a large good land.(Numbers
13:27), unto a land flowing with milk.(original
is 'milk' and 'sour milk', like buttermilk and cheese).and
honey.(original
'the natural honeycomb'), unto the place of the Canaanites
and the Hittites.and
the Amorites and the Perizzites
and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Exodus
3:9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel
is come unto me and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians
oppress them.
Exodus
3:10 Come now therefore and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that you
may bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Exodus
3:11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh
and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
Exodus
3:12 And he said, Certainly I will be with you and this shall be a
token.(the
token was the burning bush:.Exodus
3:2,3.above).unto
you that I have sent you. When you have brought forth the people out of
Egypt you shall serve God upon this mountain.
Exodus 3:13,14 And Moses said unto God, Behold,
when I come unto the children of Israel and shall say unto them, The God
of your fathers has sent me unto you and they shall say to me, What is
his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT
I AM. And he said Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, I AM
has sent me unto you.
Exodus
3:13,14 And Moses said unto God,
Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel and shall say unto them
The God of your fathers has sent me unto you and they shall say to me What
is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God.(Creator-God
as the Word).said
unto Moses I AM THAT I AM. And he said Thus shall you say unto the children
of Israel.(today it's
a
spiritual 'Israel' with everyone of love in
it), I AM has sent me unto you.
Or, 'I AM WHAT
I AM' or I am that I AM, that is, of the eternal self-existent energy that
is intelligent and is 'behind' or responsible for all things:.Revelation
4:9,10. 'I AM' is the individualized aspect of God. It's 'IAM, you
are.(*).
Creator-Father-God is 'seen' by what is not seen. How's this make sense?.Romans
1:20; Colossians 1:16; 2Peter
3:5.
The "I am what
I am" could just as easily have been translated as 'I am what I will to
be'. What does
that mean? The Creator,
one function of which is known as 'the Word', is all and all is
the purpose the Creator exists. And in this special oneness of God, of
which we also are in, is the ability, the free
choice, to also be what we want to be and not just for us but for all
that may concern us, such as caring for all humanity. So, learn how
to envision what you want that's good for all.
The 'I am'
or 'I appear to you that which I truly am' and that is sincerity or silence,
for in silence, there is pure sincerity. 'I AM' means existing
in
the presence of its own power, for the power of the
Silence surrounds everything and is everything. It's the Invisible
Intelligent Energy that is all things:.Revelation
4:9,10. All vibration comes from the stillness, this silence. It forms
according to the original pattern imagined. This Intelligent Unformed Energy
is a presence
one knows is active and comes to be known in meditation.
You too exist in this presence.(Psalms
46:10), this presence Alexander
Graham Bell knew well about. And when your mind is off and away from
ego
concerns and on love, you are then aligned with that which is only
love,
the stuff of the Silence., the stuff of the basic operating system
of the Universe. This invisible reality can't be touched with our sense
of touch and can't be heard with our sense of hearing. We also can't define
this as the Creator, as it was out of this silent energy that came those
who were involved in the creation of all.
'I am that
I am' means 'I am the
reality of the present', not the past, not the future, but the present,
because in the present
is all and as is He, so
are we. 'I AM' is 'I exist', 'I am aware', 'I create', 'I am that I
am' and 'I am what I am', all mean, the universe has become my body, a
cosmic
consciousness (the body of the Silence). We need to plunge into
this
vast ocean of consciousness and when we do, we become a member of the
body, the
family of Creators made from the Silence, just as the
Elohim were.
Whst's called
the
Word, is also in the realm
of the unmanifest or as some call it, the 'nothingness'.
It's beyond all we know and we really know so little.
Exodus
3:15 And God
said moreover
unto Moses, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, The Lord
God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob,
has sent me unto you.(*).
This is my name forever and this is my memorial unto all generations.
Exodus
3:16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them,
The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob,
appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you and seen that which
is done to you in Egypt.
Exodus
3:17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of
Egypt.(Exodus
3:7-10).unto the land of
the Canaanites and the Hittites
and the Amorites and the Perizzites
and the Hivites and the Jebusites,
unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus
6:7,8; 33:1; Joshua
1:2.
Exodus
3:18-20 And they shall hearken to thy voice and you shall come, you
and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt.(which
king was this?) and you shall say
unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews
has met with us. Now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into
the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. And I am sure
that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And
I will stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I
will do in the midst thereof and after that he will let you go.
Exodus
3:21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians
and it shall come to pass that, when you go you shall not go empty.
Exodus
3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour and of her that
sojourns
in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment.(clothing).and
you shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters and you shall
spoil
the Egyptians.
Exodus
4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe
me, nor hearken unto my voice, for they will say, The Lord has not appeared
unto you.
Exodus
4:2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he
said, A rod.
Exodus
4:3 And he said cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground
and it became a serpent and Moses fled from before it.
Exodus
4:4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth your hand, and take it
by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it and it became a rod
in his hand.
Exodus
4:5 That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob has appeared unto you.
The
Creator always
wanted humans to believe in Him.
Exodus
4:6-9 And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into
thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom and when he took it out behold,
his hand was leprous.as
snow. And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his
hand into his bosom again and plucked it out of his bosom and behold, it
was turned again as his other flesh. And it shall come to pass, if they
will not believe you, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that
they will believe the voice of the latter sign. And it shall come to pass,
if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy
voice, that you shall take of the water of the river and pour it upon the
dry land and the water which you take out of the river shall become blood
upon the dry land.
Exodus
4:10 And Moses said unto the Lord O my Lord I am not eloquent,
neither heretofore nor since you have spoken unto your servant. But I am
slow of speech and of a slow tongue.
Moses
needed to learn public speaking.
He couldn't properly get out what he wanted to say and got lost in trying
to. He was looking to his inabilities instead of to God's abilities. What
you see and believe is what you are. Jeremiah had the same thoughts as
Moses about his inability:.Jeremiah
1:5; Acts 7:22.
John
9:1-3.
Exodus
4:11 And the Lord said unto him Who has made man's mouth? or who makes
the dumb or deaf or the seeing or the blind? Have
not I the Lord?
The
Creator is responsible for all:.John
9:1-3. Though God is responsible for all, God made humanity with free
choice and responds to what humanity does, as the average of the thinking
of people (the collective
consciousness) determines what
comes back to them.
Exodus
4:12-15 Now therefore go and I will be with your mouth and teach you
what you shall say.(Matthew
10:19,20). And he said O my Lord send I pray you by the
hand of him whom you will send.(send
someone else). And the anger
of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, Is not Aaron the
Levite.your
brother? I know that he can speak well. And also behold,
he comes forth to meet you. And when he sees you he will be glad in his
heart. And you shall speak unto him and put words in his mouth. And I will
be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what you shall
do.
Exodus
4:16 And he.(Aaron,
brother of Moses).shall
be your spokesman unto the people. And he shall be to you instead of a.(your
mouth).mouth and you shall be
to him instead of God.(you
can tell him what to say).
Exodus
4:19 And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian,
Go, return into Egypt, for all the men are dead which sought your life.
Exodus
2:11-23.
Exodus
4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons and set them upon an ass
and he returned to the land of Egypt and Moses took the rod of God in his
hand.
Exodus
4:21 And the Lord said unto Moses, When you go to return into Egypt,
see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in your
hand. But I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go..(?)
Exodus
5:1 And afterward Moses and
Aaron
went in and told Pharaoh.(which
pharaoh was this?), Thus says the Lord.God
of Israel,
Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Exodus
5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice
to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
Exodus
5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews
has met with us. Let us go, we pray thee.(they
were respectful),
three days journey into the desert and sacrifice.(what
sacrifices?).unto the Lord our
God; lest he fall
upon us with pestilence
or with the sword.
Exodus
5:4 And the king of Egypt said unto them. Wherefore do you, Moses and
Aaron, let the people from their works.(what's
this crazy idea you have to get the people out of their work)?
get you unto your burdens.(go
and do your work for us).
Exodus 5:5-8 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people
of the land now are many and you make them rest from their burdens. And
Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their
officers, saying, You shall no more give the people straw to make brick,
as heretofore. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale
of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, you shall lay upon them.
You shall not diminish ought thereof, for they be idle, therefore they
cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
Exodus
5:5-8 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many
and you make them rest from their burdens. And Pharaoh commanded the same
day the taskmasters of the people.(Egyptians
who were over the Israelites).and their
officers.(Israelites
selected by the Egyptian taskmasters to be over other Israelites),
saying, You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore.
Let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale.(tally).of
the bricks, which they did make heretofore, you shall lay upon them. You
shall not diminish ought thereof, for they be idle.(it's
their fault; they're lazy, but Pharaoh's real concern was to keep them
so busy with daily concerns, as the cabal has done to people back from
today to as long ago as it started, so that their minds would be off of
rising up against the cruel Egyptians; as today, men and women kept busy
have little if any interest in changing those things that daily afflict
them adversely), therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice
to our God.
Exodus 5:9 Let there more work be laid upon the men,
that they may labour therein and let them not regard vain words.
Exodus
5:9 Let there more work be laid upon the men.(let's
make it harder on them, as today),
that they may labor therein and let them.(the
officers selected by Pharoah out of the Israelites to oversee the work
of the other Israelites; control of others to the benefit of the few in
control).not regard vain words.(don't
respond favorably to any excuses).
Exodus 5:10-14 And the taskmasters of the people and
their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, Thus said Pharaoh,
I will not give you straw. Go you, get your own straw where you can find
it, yet not ought of your work shall be diminished. So the people were
scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead
of straw. And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your
daily tasks, as when there was straw. And the officers of the children
of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beating
and demanding why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick yesterday
and today, as heretofore?
Exodus
5:10-14 And the taskmasters of the people and their officers.(the
Egyptians had placed some of the Israelites to superintend
the work of the other Israelites; these were called officers).went
out and spoke to the people, saying, Thus said Pharaoh, I will not give
you straw. Go you, get you straw where you can find it, yet not ought.(none).of
your work shall be diminished.(do
it on your own time; plan was as today, keep them so busy that they would
stay away from becoming a threat to those in power). So the people
were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble
instead of straw. And the taskmasters hasted them.(forced
them constantly, to purposely make it difficult for them), saying,
Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. And the officers
of the children of Israel.(the
Egyptians had a few of the Israelites over groups of other Israelites,
like various supervisors in a construction project, who don't actually
work for the construction company, instead being selected from laborers
to head other laborers), which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over
them.(over other Israelites),
were beaten and demanded.(these
officers were told they were not doing their job of getting their fellow
Israelites to work hard enough and were therefor beaten by the Egyptians
for this), Wherefore have you not fulfilled your task in making
brick both yesterday and today, as heretofore?
Exodus 5:15,16 Then the.officers
of the children of Israel.came and cried
unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore deal you thus with your servants? There
is no straw given unto your servants and they say to us, Make brick and
behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.
Exodus
5:15,16 Then the.officers.(Israelites
placed by the Egyptians to superintend
the work of other Israelites).of
the children of Israel.came and cried
unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore deal you thus with your servants? There
is no straw given unto your servants and they say to us, Make brick and
behold, your servants are beaten.(us,
in these positions under your taskmasters and over the working Israelites),
but the fault is in your own people.
Exodus
5:17,18 But he said, You are idle, you are idle.(a
typical political answer where concerns are circumvented and blame is thrown
on those having genuine concerns). Therefore you say, Let
us go and do sacrifice to the Lord. Go therefore now and work, for there
shall no straw be given you, yet shall you deliver the tale.(the
tally,
the amount of bricks each man had to daily produce).of
bricks.
Exodus 5:19-21 And the officers of the children
of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, You shall
not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task. And they met Moses
and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh. And they
said unto them, The Lord look upon you and judge, because you have made
our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his
servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Exodus
5:19-21 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they
were in evil case.(Pharaoh
lied; they saw there was no truth to what Pharoah was saying and concluded
that Pharaoh et al.were
evil and unfair, but why did they put up with this nonsense as long as
they did? There were thousands more of them than the Egyptians),
after it was said, You shall not minish.(diminish).ought
from your bricks of your daily task. And they met Moses and Aaron, who
stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh. And they said unto them,
The Lord look upon you and judge, because you have made our savour.(scent;
used metaphorically
to here mean, our good reputation recently with the Egyptians).to
be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to
put a sword in their hand to slay us.(they
blamed Moses and Aaron for making things worse for them at the hand of
the Egyptians).
Exodus
5:22,23 And Moses returned unto the Lord and said Lord, wherefore have
you so evil entreated this people? why is it that you have sent me? For
since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this
people, neither
have you delivered your people at all.
Exodus
6:1,2 Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now you'll see what I will do
to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand shall he let them go and with a strong
hand shall he drive them out of his land. And God spake unto Moses and
said unto him, I am the Lord.
Exodus
6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac and unto Jacob, by the
name of God Almighty.(all
powerful God), but by my name JEHOVAH.(means
'the forever existing One'; they didn't realize that the true God was anything
different than any other Gods that were worshiped
by the nations back then).was
I not known to them.
Exodus
6:4,5 And I have also established my covenant.(agreement)
with
them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein
they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children
of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage and I have remembered my
covenant.
Exodus
6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord and I
will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians and I will rid
you out of their bondage and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm
and with great judgments.
Exodus
6:7,8 And I will take you to me for a people and I will be to you a
God and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, which brings you out
from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto the
land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac
and to Jacob and I will give it to you for an heritage. I am the Lord.
Exodus
6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel, but they hearkened
not unto Moses for anguish
of spirit and for cruel.bondage.
They
were upset with
Moses, blaming
him for their plight.
They came out of cruel bondage in Egypt, but it was no better for them
in the wilderness on the way to the better land.
Exodus
6:10-12 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Go in, speak unto Pharaoh
king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. And
Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have
not hearkened unto me, how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised
lips?
Moses
couldn't speak fluently.
Exodus
6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi.(who
became the ancient Levitical
priesthood).according
to their generations; Gershon and Kohath and Merari and the years of the
life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
Exodus
6:17-18 The sons of Gershon; Libni and Shimi, according to their families.
And the sons of Kohath; Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel and the years
of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
Exodus
6:19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi. These are the families
of Levi according to their generations.
Exodus
6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife and she
bare him Aaron and Moses.(and
also Miriam:.Numbers
26:59).and
the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
Exodus
6:21-23 And the sons of Izhar; Korah
and Nepheg and Zichri. And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael and Elzaphan and
Zithri. And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon,
to wife
and she bare him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Exodus
6:24 And the sons of Korah; Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph. These are
the families of the Korhites.
Exodus
6:25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel
to wife and she bare him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers of
the Levites.according
to their families.
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