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    Exodus 6

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    The chapter promises that Pharaoh will drive Israel out, only to find that Israel will not listen, and Moses is still asking why Pharaoh should.

    A promise meets a closed earvv. 1–13

    The LORD answers Moses with a mighty sequence of promises: Israel will be brought out, redeemed, taken as His own people, and brought into the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Moses relays it, but the people are too crushed by bondage to listen. Then comes the next instruction—tell Pharaoh to let them go—and Moses produces the same awkward arithmetic: if Israel will not listen, why should Pharaoh? The LORD charges Moses and Aaron with the whole business anyway, which is a wonderfully direct way to proceed when the spokesman has just explained why speaking will fail.

    The family rollvv. 14–27

    The narrative pauses for the heads of the families: Reuben, Simeon, and Levi, with their sons and clans. In the middle of this sober procession, Amram’s marriage to his father’s sister Jochebed is given as calmly as every other family connection, and from it come Aaron and Moses. Aaron marries Elisheba and has four sons; Eleazar marries a daughter of Putiel and has Phinehas. At the end, the chapter gathers the threads: this is the Aaron and Moses charged to bring Israel out, and these are the two who spoke to Pharaoh.

    The objection returnsvv. 28–30

    The chapter resumes the commission in Egypt. The LORD says, “Tell Pharaoh everything I say to you,” and Moses, having arrived at the final verse, returns almost exactly to his earlier objection: he is unskilled in speech, so why would Pharaoh listen? The door has been opened, the instruction repeated, and Moses is standing in the same doorway.

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    1. Exod 6:1But 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.”

    2. Exod 6:2God also told Moses, “I am the LORD.

    3. Exod 6:3I 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.

    4. Exod 6:4I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.

    5. Exod 6:5Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.

    6. Exod 6:6Therefore 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.

    7. Exod 6:7I 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.

    8. Exod 6:8And 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!’”

    9. Exod 6:9Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.

    10. Exod 6:10So the LORD said to Moses,

    11. Exod 6:11“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”

    12. Exod 6:12But 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?”

    13. Exod 6:13Then 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.

    14. Exod 6:14These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.

    15. Exod 6:15The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.

    16. Exod 6:16These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.

    17. Exod 6:17The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.

    18. Exod 6:18The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.

    19. Exod 6:19The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites according to their records.

    20. Exod 6:20And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

    21. Exod 6:21The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.

    22. Exod 6:22The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.

    23. Exod 6:23And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

    24. Exod 6:24The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the clans of the Korahites.

    25. Exod 6:25Aaron’s son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families by their clans.

    26. Exod 6:26It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”

    27. Exod 6:27Moses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

    28. Exod 6:28Now on the day that the LORD spoke to Moses in Egypt,

    29. Exod 6:29He said to him, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”

    30. Exod 6:30But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”

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    • 3Psalms 83:18May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
    • 6Deuteronomy 26:8Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.
    • 3Psalms 68:4Sing to God! Sing praises to His name. Exalt Him who rides on the clouds—His name is the LORD—and rejoice before Him.
    • 3Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
    • 1Exodus 12:33And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”
    • 3Exodus 3:14God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
    • 1Psalms 136:12with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. His loving devotion endures forever.
    • 1Exodus 12:39Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.
    • 7Deuteronomy 29:13and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
    • 1Ezekiel 20:33–34As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath I will rule over you.
    • 1Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
    • 1Exodus 11:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will bring upon Pharaoh and Egypt one more plague. After that, he will allow you to leave this place. And when he lets you go, he will drive you out completely.
    • 5Exodus 2:24So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
    • 61 Chronicles 17:21And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.
    • 7Deuteronomy 4:20Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
    • 12 Chronicles 20:17You need not fight this battle. Take up your positions, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out and face them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you.’”

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