Exodus 11
Exodus 11:1 Yahveh had told Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will send you away from here. When he sends you away, he will expel you, and it will be complete.
Exodus 11:2 Now tell this in the hearing of the people, so that they ask, every man from his neighbor and every woman from her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.”
Exodus 11:3 And Yahveh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. In addition to this, the man Moses was influential in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s slaves and in the sight of the people.
Exodus 11:4 So Moses said, “Thus says Yahveh: Around midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt,
Exodus 11:5 and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
Exodus 11:6 There will be a great outcry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.
Exodus 11:7 But not a dog will stick out its tongue against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, so that you may know that Yahveh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
Exodus 11:8 And all these your slaves will come down to me and bow down to me, and this is what they will say, ‘Go out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh with a burning nose.
Exodus 11:9 And Yahveh had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my miracles may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 11:10 Moses and Aaron did all these miracles before Pharaoh, and Yahveh made Pharaoh’s heart strong, and he did not send the people of Israel away from his land.
Exodus 11 quotes:
“Now our fanciful flight of imagination connects us with the culture of today that says, image supercedes substance. Consider what part perception plays in the name of politics and market place advertising. Much is based on illusion, being deceived by a false perception or belief, rather than fact and reality. But now we read Exodus 11:4 and see that Moses is convinced of power, not based on illusion, but on God.”
Younger, Tom. Tom’s Thought Provokers : Gems from a Pastor’s Heart. 1stBooks, 2004. p. 246.
“Exodus 11:5, “from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the handmill,” suggests that Egyptians were also slaves in this house of bondage.”
Dykstra, Laurel. Set Them Free : The Other Side of Exodus. Orbis Books, 2002. p. 191.
“Exodus 11 is a transitional chapter in several ways. Moses’ final conversation with Pharaoh continues from Exodus 10. Having been warned by Pharaoh never to appear before him again, Moses delivers the warning of the tenth plague, the death of the firstborn (vv. 4-8). Verses 1-3, however, contain God’s instructions for asking for silver and gold articles from the Egyptians. The chapter as a whole marks the ending of the first nine plagues (chs. 7-10), provides the announcement of the final plague to Pharaoh, and introduces the beginning of the exit from Egypt (chs. 11-15).”
Bruckner, James K. Exodus. Hendrickson Publishers ; Paternoster, 2008. p. 104.
Exodus 11 links:
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