Category: Jeff’s translation

Exodus 4

Exodus 4:1 Then Moses answered, “But notice,[1] they will not believe me or listen to my voice, because they will say, ‘Yahveh did not appear to you.'”

Exodus 4:2 Yahveh said to him, “What is this in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”

Exodus 4:3 And he said, “Throw it to the ground.” So, he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake,[2] and Moses ran from it.

Exodus 4:4 But Yahveh said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail” – so he put out his hand and held it strongly,[3] and it became a staff in his hand-

Exodus 4:5 “that they may believe that Yahveh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Exodus 4:6 Again, Yahveh said to him, “Put your hand inside your shirt.” And he put his hand inside his shirt, and when he took it out, he noticed his hand was leprous like snow.

Exodus 4:7 Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your shirt.” So, he put his hand back inside his shirt, and when he took it out, he noticed it was restored like the rest of his flesh.

Exodus 4:8 “If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.

Exodus 4:9 If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you will take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you will take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

Exodus 4:10 But Moses said to Yahveh, “Oh, my Lord, I am not articulate, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your slave,[4] but I am heavy of speech and of tongue.”

Exodus 4:11 Then Yahveh said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, Yahveh?

Exodus 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you will speak.”

Exodus 4:13 But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.”

Exodus 4:14 Then the anger of Yahveh was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Notice, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

Exodus 4:15 You will speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.

Exodus 4:16 He will speak for you to the people, and he will be your mouth, and you will be as God to him.

Exodus 4:17 And take into your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”

Exodus 4:18 Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and asked him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro told Moses, “Go in peace.”

Exodus 4:19 And Yahveh had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your throat are dead.”

Exodus 4:20 So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

Exodus 4:21 And Yahveh said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see to all the miracles before Pharaoh that I have put in your power. But I will make his heart strong, so that he will not let the people go.

Exodus 4:22 Then you will say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what Yahveh says, Israel is my firstborn son,

Exodus 4:23 and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, notice, I will kill your firstborn son.'”

Exodus 4:24 At a lodging place on the way Yahveh met him and sought to put him to death.

Exodus 4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

Exodus 4:26 So he let him alone. It was at that time that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

Exodus 4:27 Yahveh had told Aaron, “Go into the open country to meet Moses.” So, he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

Exodus 4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahveh with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do.

Exodus 4:29 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.

Exodus 4:30 Aaron spoke all the words that Yahveh had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people.

Exodus 4:31 And the people believed; and when they heard that Yahveh had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.

---

[1] הֵן = notice. Exodus 4:1; 5:5; 6:12, 30; 8:26.

[2] נָחָשׁ = snake. Exodus 4:3; 7:15.

[3]חָזַק = be strong, strongly. Exodus 4:4, 21; 7:13, 22; 8:19; 9:2, 12, 35; 10:20, 27; 11:10; 12:33; 14:4, 8, 17; 19:19.

[4] עֶבֶד = slave. Exodus 4:10; 5:15, 16, 21; 7:10, 20; 8:3, 4, 9, 11, 21, 24, 29, 31; 9:14, 20, 21, 30, 34; 10:1, 6, 7; 11:3, 8; 12:30, 44; 13:3, 14; 14:5, 31; 20:2, 10, 17; 21:2, 5, 7, 20, 26, 27, 32; 32:13.

Exodus 4 quotes:

“What has God put in your hand? It might be a gift or a talent or a resource that you don’t think very much of. Moses didn’t walk around admiring the rod he carried in his hand. But God used it for great glory. You may think God has to put something new or different in your hand before He can use you. But right now, God has put something in your hand that He can use. You have some gift, some interest, some ability that marks your life. God wants to ask you the same question He asked Moses: “What is that in your hand?” The answer may reveal how God wants to use you today.”

Guzik, David. Free and Clear. Enduring Word Media, 2004. p. 25.

“In Exodus 4:16 God tells Moses that when Aaron speaks for him he shall be to Aaron as God. This is a remarkable assertion. It reveals in part the process of divine revelation. God will be with the mouth of Moses so that Moses will speak God’s Word; Aaron will hear the Word from Moses and speak it to the Israelites and Egyptians. Aaron can only speak what Moses says, and only Aaron will speak what Moses says. As the mouthpiece of -Moses, Aaron is acting as if Moses were God to him. Revelation is God speaking through the mouth of one man to another.”

Ramm, Bernard L. God’s Way out : Finding the Road to Personal Freedom through Exodus. Regal Books, 1987. p. 35.

“Although it is impossible to know exactly what Moses was thinking here, it seems likely there were at least two dynamics at work here. First, his words in Exodus 4:13 may have been a last ditch plea based on Moses’ sense of his insufficiency for the task set before him. But I think there is something else going on here. Moses’ words also display fear, stubbornness, recalcitrance, lack of faithfulness, and his self-centeredness. After all of God’s promises, Moses is still focusing on himself and his insufficiencies. God was not pleased. In Exodus 4:14 we learn that “the Lord’s anger burned against Moses.” In the verses that follow, God graciously offers Aaron to serve as Moses” mouthpiece, once again displaying to Moses that God’s ‘power is sufficient. But while God was gracious to Moses,”

Selvaggio, Anthony T. From Bondage to Liberty : The Gospel according to Moses. P&R Publishing, 2014. p. 65.

Exodus 4 links:

changing for the sake of the mission
Exodus- reluctance
sharing his passion
what I cannot do

---

Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, March 8, 2019
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, July 13, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, July 12, 2017

---

EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 3

Exodus 3:1 At that time Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the open country[1] and came to Horeb, God’s mountain.

Exodus 3:2 And the agent[2] of Yahveh[3] appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and noticed the bush was burning, but it was not consumed.

Exodus 3:3 And Moses said, “I will go over to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

Exodus 3:4 When Yahveh saw that he went over to see, God called to him from the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Notice me.”

Exodus 3:5 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, because the place on which you are standing is sacred[4] ground.”

Exodus 3:6 And 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, because he was afraid to look at God.

Exodus 3:7 Then Yahveh said, “I have certainly seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their slavedrivers.[5] I know their sufferings,

Exodus 3:8 and I have come down to strip them from the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and extensive land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place now possessed by Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 3:9 And now, notice, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them.

Exodus 3:10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may rescue my people, the sons of Israel, from Egypt.”

Exodus 3:11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and rescue the sons of Israel from Egypt?”

Exodus 3:12 He said, “But I will be with you, and this will be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have rescued the people from Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain.”

Exodus 3:13 Then Moses said to God, “Notice, if I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”

Exodus 3:14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.'”

Exodus 3:15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel, Yahveh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my permanent[6] name, and this is how I am to be remembered for all generations.

Exodus 3:16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, “Yahveh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, and this is what he said, “I have seen you and what has been done to you in Egypt,

Exodus 3:17 and I promise that I will bring you up from the trouble of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”‘

Exodus 3:18 And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel will go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘Yahveh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days’ journey into the open country, so that we may sacrifice to Yahveh our God.’

Exodus 3:19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless forced by a mighty hand.

Exodus 3:20 So I will stretch out my hand and hit Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go.

Exodus 3:21 And I will give this people favor[7] in the eyes of the Egyptians; and when you go, you will not go empty,

Exodus 3:22 but each woman will ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives as a guest in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You will put them on your sons and on your daughters. This is how you will strip the Egyptians.”

---

[1] מִדְבָּר = open country. Exodus 3:1, 18; 4:27; 5:1, 3; 7:16; 8:27, 28; 13:18, 20; 14:3, 11, 12; 15:22; 16:1, 2, 3, 10, 14, 32; 17:1; 18:5; 19:1, 2; 23:31.

[2] מַלְאָךְ = agent. Exodus 3:2; 14:19; 23:20, 23; 32:34; 33:2.

[3] יָהְוֶה = Yahveh. Exodus 3:2, 4, 7, 15, 16, 18; 4:1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 14, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31; 5:1, 2, 3, 17, 21, 22; 6:1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 26, 28, 29, 30; 7:1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 25; 8:1, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31; 9:1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 35; 10:1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27; 11:1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10; 12:1, 11, 12, 14, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 36, 41, 42, 43, 48, 50, 51; 13:1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 21; 14:1, 4, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 18, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31; 15:1, 3, 6, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25, 26; 16:3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 23, 25, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34; 17:1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 14, 15, 16; 18:1, 8, 9, 10, 11; 19:3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; 20:2, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 22; 22:11, 20; 23:17, 19, 25; 24:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 16, 17; 25:1; 27:21; 28:12, 29, 30, 35, 36, 38; 29:11, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 41, 42, 46; 30:8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 34, 37; 31:1, 12, 13, 15, 17; 32:5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35; 33:1, 5, 7, 11, 12, 17, 19, 21; 34:1, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 32, 34; 35:1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 21, 22, 24, 29, 30; 36:1, 2, 5; 38:22; 39:1, 5, 7, 21, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 42, 43; 40:1, 16, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 32, 34, 35, 38.

[4] קֹדֶשׁ = sacred. Exodus 3:5; 12:16; 15:11, 13; 16:23; 22:31; 26:33, 34; 28:2, 4, 29, 35, 36, 38, 43; 29:6, 29, 30, 33, 34, 37; 30:10, 13, 24, 25, 29, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37; 31:10, 11, 14, 15; 35:2, 19, 21; 36:1, 3, 4, 6; 37:29; 38:24, 25, 26, 27; 39:1, 30, 41; 40:9, 10, 13.

[5] נָגָשׂ = slavedriver. Exodus 3:7; 5:6, 10, 13, 14.

[6] עוֹלָם = permanent, permanently. Exodus 3:15; 12:14, 17, 24; 14:13; 15:18; 19:9; 21:6; 27:21; 28:43; 29:9, 28; 30:21; 31:16, 17; 32:13; 40:15.

[7] חֵן = favor. Exodus 3:21; 11:3; 12:36; 33:12, 13, 16, 17; 34:9.

Exodus 3 quotes:

“The practice of removing the sandals on entering sacred places, and even houses on visits of courtesy, has ever been, and still is, general in the East.”

Alford Henry. The Book of Genesis and Part of the Book of Exodus : A Revised Version with Marginal References and an Explanatory Commentary. Strahan 1872. p. 229.

“Thus ‘I am that I am,’ God is an ultimate fact ; He cannot be explained by anything else, but only by Himself. And, again, ‘ I am — always — that which I am — now, and always have been,’ as in the New Testament, ‘Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.’

Then. I am, because I am,’ there is no cause for God’s existence outside of Himself.

Then, too, ‘ I am who am,’ God is pure and essential being.

And, again, ‘I will be that I will be,’ or ‘I become that which I will, or choose to, become’; God is lord of His own destiny.”

Bennett, W. H. Exodus: Introduction. New York: H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1908. p. 58.

“The third chapter of Exodus is filled with revelation and interaction. It includes a theophany (the appearing of God) and the story of Moses’ call. Moses meets God for the first time in the burning bush, where God calls him to go back to Egypt. We are reminded of the oppression there and hear the first two of Moses’ five objections to God’s call. Exodus 3 gives the name of the Lord, repeats the promise of land to Abraham’s family, and predicts Pharaoh’s resistance. Finally, God promises to do “wonders” until the Egyptians let the people go and send them away with silver, gold, and clothing.”

Bruckner James K. Exodus. Hendrickson Publishers ; Paternoster 2008. p. 39.

Exodus 3 links:

ACST 51- The Regenerator – jeffersonvann
Spring up, Oh Well
Yahveh

---

Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, July 7, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, March 10, 2023
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Monday, July 10, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Saturday, July 8, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Sunday, July 9, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, March 10, 2021

---

EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 2

Exodus 2:1 Then a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a daughter of Levi.

Exodus 2:2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and seeing that he was special, she concealed him three months.

Exodus 2:3 When she could conceal him no longer, she prepared for him a basket made of papyrus and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

Exodus 2:4 And his sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

Exodus 2:5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave,[1] and she took it.

Exodus 2:6 After she opened it, she saw the child, and noticed the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

Exodus 2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

Exodus 2:8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So, the girl went and called the child’s mother.

Exodus 2:9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So, the woman took the child and nursed him.

Exodus 2:10 When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She called his name Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

Exodus 2:11 Then after Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

Exodus 2:12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand.

Exodus 2:13 When he went out the next day, notice, two Hebrews were fighting together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?”

Exodus 2:14 He answered, “Who made you an official and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing has been made known.”

Exodus 2:15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses ran[2] from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.

Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Exodus 2:17 The shepherds normally came and would drive them away, but Moses stood up and saved[3] them, and watered their flock.

Exodus 2:18 When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “Why have you come home so soon today?”

Exodus 2:19 They said, “An Egyptian rescued us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

Exodus 2:20 He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

Exodus 2:21 And Moses was agreeable to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

Exodus 2:22 She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, because he said, “I have been a foreign guest in a foreign land.”

Exodus 2:23 And after many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue came up to God.

Exodus 2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 2:25 God saw the sons of Israel – and God knew.

---

[1] אָמָה = female slave. Exodus 2:5; 20:10, 17; 21:7, 20, 26, 27, 32; 23:12.

[2] בָּרָח = run, run through. Exodus 2:15; 14:5; 26:28; 36:33.

[3] יָשַׁע = save. Exodus 2:17; 14:30.

---

Exodus 2 quotes:

“The stories of Exodus 2 lead to verses 23-25. The point is that if humans can rescue other humans who are caught in strife, then how much more will the God that we know from Genesis, full of compassion and mercy and who has an established covenant relationship with his people, rescue them? If the daughter of Pharaoh can hear cries and be merciful against the stated will of her father, how much more will God hear, given his stated obligation to Abraham and his descendants? If Moses can see his people’s trouble and the trouble of a group of daughters of a priest of Midian, then how much more so will God, whose nature is to have mercy? If a priest of Midian can take on board a lonely fugitive and give him a home, then how much more so will the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, do so? If humans can do it, how much more so will God? This is the point of this chapter—God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. He looked on the Israelites and he was concerned. Where God ‘remembers’, ‘looks upon’ and ‘is concerned’, we can expect to see action.”

Reid, Andrew. Out of Darkness : Exodus 1- 18. Matthias Media, 2005. p. 15.

“Exodus 2:9 “took the boy and nursed him” Breastfeeding is the natural means planned by the Creator to forge an irrevocable bond between a mother and her child. This providential intervention gave the opportunity for physical and emotional bonding between Moses and his godly mother, giving to him immersion in her faith and values in his earliest, formative years.”

Patterson, Dorothy Kelley, Touched by Greatness : Women in the Life of Moses. Christian Focus, 2011. p. 38.

“Exodus 2 includes Moses’ birth, his amazing deliverance and adoption (2:1-10), his identification with “his” Hebrew people, the killing of an Egyptian, his escape to the land of Midian, his marriage to Zipporah, and the birth of their son, Gershom (vv. 11-22). The chapter concludes with a reminder of the groaning of the people in Egypt and God’s attentive ear (vv. 23-25).”

Bruckner, James K. Exodus. Hendrickson Publishers ; Paternoster, 2008. p. 26.

Exodus 2 links:

as luck would have it
Exodus- God saw and knew
God’s mountain
IN A DREAM #4 – jeffersonvann
preparing for the mission
the Gershom years

---

Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, July 6, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, March 7, 2019
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, July 5, 2017

---

EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 1

Exodus 1:1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each man with his house:[1]

Exodus 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

Exodus 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

Exodus 1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

Exodus 1:5 All the throats[2] coming out of the loins of Jacob were seventy throats; Joseph being already in Egypt.

Exodus 1:6 Joseph eventually died, and all his brothers and all that generation.

Exodus 1:7 But the sons of Israel had been fruitful and greatly crowded Egypt; they multiplied and grew very strong, so that the land[3] was filled with them.

Exodus 1:8 Then a new king – who did not remember Joseph – began reigning over Egypt,

Exodus 1:9 And he said to his people, “Notice,[4] the people of the sons of Israel are too many and too strong for us.

Exodus 1:10 Cooperate! let us deal wisely with them, or else[5] they will keep multiplying, and, when war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”

Exodus 1:11 Therefore they set officials[6] over them to force heavy burdens[7] upon them. They built store cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1:12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they permeated the country. And the Egyptians detested the people of Israel.

Exodus 1:13 So they callously made the people of Israel work as slaves

Exodus 1:14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they callously made them work as slaves.

Exodus 1:15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

Exodus 1:16 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, you will kill him, but if it is a daughter, she will live.”

Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the boys live.

Exodus 1:18 So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the boys live?”

Exodus 1:19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, because they are strong and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

Exodus 1:20 So God treated the midwives well. And the people continued to multiply and grew very strong.

Exodus 1:21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them houses.

Exodus 1:22 Then Pharaoh ordered all his people, and this is what he said, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you will throw into the Nile, but you will let every daughter live.”

---

[1] בַּיִת = house, home, inside. Exodus 1:1, 21; 2:1; 3:22; 6:14; 7:23; 8:3, 9, 11, 13, 21, 24; 9:19, 20; 10:6; 12:3, 4, 7, 13, 15, 19, 22, 23, 27, 29, 30, 46; 13:3, 14; 16:31; 19:3; 20:2, 17; 22:7, 8; 23:19; 25:11, 27; 26:29, 33; 28:26; 30:4; 34:26; 36:34; 37:2, 14, 27; 38:5; 39:19; 40:38.

[2] נֶפֶשׁ = throat.  Exodus 1:5; 4:19; 12:4, 15, 16, 19; 15:9; 16:16; 21:23, 30; 23:9; 30:12, 15, 16; 31:14.

[3] אֶרֶץ = land.  Exodus 1:7, 10; 2:15, 22; 3:8, 17; 4:3, 20; 5:5, 12; 6:1, 4, 8, 11, 13, 26, 28; 7:2, 3, 4, 19, 21; 8:5, 6, 7, 14, 16, 17, 22, 24, 25; 9:5, 9, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 33; 10:5, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22; 11:3, 5, 6, 9, 10; 12:1, 12, 13, 17, 19, 25, 29, 33, 41, 42, 48, 51; 13:5, 11, 15, 17, 18; 14:3; 15:12; 16:1, 3, 6, 14, 32, 35; 18:3, 27; 19:1, 5; 20:2, 4, 11; 22:21; 23:9, 10, 26, 29, 30, 31, 33; 29:46; 31:17; 32:1, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 23; 33:1, 3; 34:8, 10, 12, 15, 24.

[4] הִנֵּה = notice. Exodus 1:9; 2:6, 13; 3:2, 4, 9, 13; 4:6, 7, 14, 23; 5:16; 7:16, 17; 8:2, 21, 29; 9:3, 7, 18; 10:4; 14:10, 17; 16:4, 10, 14; 17:6; 19:9; 23:20; 24:8, 14; 31:6; 32:9, 34; 33:21; 34:10, 11, 30; 39:43.

[5]פֵּן = or else. Exodus 1:10; 5:3; 13:17; 19:21-22, 24; 20:19; 23:33; 33:3; 34:12, 15.

[6] שַׂר = official. Exodus 1:11; 2:14; 18:21, 25.

[7] סִבְלָה = burden. Exodus 1:11; 2:11; 5:4, 5; 6:6, 7.

Exodus 1 quotes:

“In Exodus 1:7 we are told that “the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them”. The language here is reminiscent of Genesis 1:28 where humans are blessed by God and told to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it”. We are being reminded that God’s purpose to bless the whole world is being carried out through the descendants of Abraham.”

Reid, Andrew. Out of Darkness : Exodus 1- 18. Matthias Media, 2005. p. 35.

“The actual situation in Egypt and the implications of the biblical text are in very good agreement, therefore, if we understand the rise of a new king over Egypt in Exodus 1:8 to mean the change to the Nineteenth Dynasty, and if we refer to the time under the early kings of that dynasty the statement of Exodus 1:13: “They made the people of Israel serve with rigor, and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.” It was for this reason that ever afterward when the Israelite people looked back to Egypt they called it “the house of bondage” (Exodus 13:3, etc.).”

Finegan, Jack. Let My People Go; a Journey through Exodus. [1st ed.] ed., Harper & Row, 1963. p. 21.

“The midwives’ courage and fear of the Lord contrast with a powerful, yet paranoid, pharaoh. Although the chapter begins with the patriarchal list, the hope of the Israelites was in the daily life of the Hebrew home and childbirth. Here we see the beginning of the key role women played in God’s deliverance of Israel from crisis in Exodus 1-4 (see also Exod. 2:1-10; 4:24-26).”

Bruckner, James K. Exodus. Hendrickson Publishers ; Paternoster, 2008. p. 22.

Exodus 1 links:

a bad turn within God’s will
Exodus- opportunities
Exodus- The flip-side of blessing
no vacancy
strange deliverance

---

Maranatha Daily Devotional – Monday, July 3, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Saturday, July 1, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Sunday, July 2, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, March 9, 2023

---

EXODUS in Jeff’s library