Exodus 4
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| Moses believed he would some way to convince the people so God explained to him how he was going to help Moses convince the people by signs and wonders. |
| Moses for tells that he will have the power to make his rod look like serpent, make someone hand look like it was diseased, and make waters become like blood. |
| Moses also was "slow of speech, and of a slow tongue" and wanted help from God. God would say that Aaron would help talk to the people. |
| Moses is taking his wife and children to Egypt. He is told that Moses was to go to Pharaoh and do dangerous things that included threatening the death of children. |
| By the way of the inn |
| V24 The narrative is obscure and there are many interpretations for these few verses supposedly related to Genesis 17:14 "And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant." |
| Everyone did not do this circumcising and Zipporah may have become afraid for she had not don this with one of her sons. Many suggest that this was the youngest but Moses was just writing about the first born dying. |
| The word in Verse 24 is muwth MemVavTav but here it appears as הֲמִיתֽוֹ׃ hă·mî·ṯōw HeyMemYodTavVav which occurs only three times in the Bible including [Proverbs 19]:18 KJV: "spare for his crying." |
| If you disobey God or reject the guidance of His Spirit death may result or the flow (Mem) of Faith (Tav) may be cut off (Vav) and all that goes along with that. |
| So it came to pass by while they were on there way we are told that the LORD methim[1] but the word is unique to this chapter. |
| And God sought to kill him but again this an unique word in this chapter.[2] |
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Moses Given Powerful Signs
1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
2 And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
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.
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
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, hath appeared unto thee.
6 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.
7 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.
8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
11 And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
14 And the anger[3] of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
Moses Returns to Egypt
18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead[4] which sought thy life.
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.
Moses was to go to Pharaoh
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
By the way of the inn
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn[5], that the LORD met[1] him, and sought to kill[2] him.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
Aaron called
27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met[1] him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
Gathered elders
29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 This form of pagash PieGimelShin appears as way·yip̄·gə·šê·hū VavYodPieGimelShinHeyVav only in thischapter
06298 פָגַשׁ pagash [paw-gash’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-803b] [{See TWOT on 1733 }] AV-meet 14; 14- 1) to meet, join, encounter
- 1a) (Qal) to meet, encounter
- 1b) (Niphal) to meet together, meet each other
- 1c) (Piel) to meet, encounter Cite error: Invalid
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- 1) to meet, join, encounter
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 This form of the word normally MemVavTav unlike what we see in verse 19 appears as HeyMemYodTavVav
04191 ^תומ^ muwth \@mooth\@ a primitive root MemVavTav; v; {See TWOT on 1169} |rely 50, kill 31, dead man 3, dead body 2, in no wise 2, misc 10; 835- 1) to die, kill, have one executed
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to die
- 1a2) to die (as penalty), be put to death
- 1a3) to die, perish (of a nation)
- 1a4) to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct)
- 1b) (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch
- 1c) (Hiphil) to kill, put to death
- 1d) (Hophal)
- 1d1) to be killed, be put to death
- 1d1a) to die prematurely
- 1d1) to be killed, be put to death
- 1a) (Qal)
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- ו Vav Connection, Connecting realms and worlds or the dividing veil between them. [nail... And, Add, secure, hook] (Numeric value: 6)
- ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds or realms through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
- other combination found together (ומת מות יומת) see Exodus 21 and Mark 7
- 1) to die, kill, have one executed
- ↑ 0639 אַף ‘aph [af] AlefPei from 0599 AlefNunPei the primitive root of "to be angry, to be displeased, to breathe hard"; n m; [BDB-60a] [{See TWOT on 133 @@ "133a" }] AV-anger 172, wrath 42, face 22, nostrils 13, nose 12, angry 4, longsuffering + 0750 4, before 2, countenance 1, forbearing 1, forehead 1, snout 1, worthy 1; 276
- 1) nostril, nose, face
- 2) anger
- א Alef Father-Son- begin- The Paradox: God and Man - (ox bull) [strength, leader, first] (Numeric value: 1)
- ? נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- פ ף Pei Communication: The Oral Torah The mouth, blow, edge. [Mouth speak open word] (Numeric value: 80)
- ↑ This form of the word normally MemVavTav appears as MemTavVav and commonly is translated are dead
04191 ^תומ^ muwth \@mooth\@ a primitive root MemVavTav; v; {See TWOT on 1169} |rely 50, kill 31, dead man 3, dead body 2, in no wise 2, misc 10; 835- 1) to die, kill, have one executed
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to die
- 1a2) to die (as penalty), be put to death
- 1a3) to die, perish (of a nation)
- 1a4) to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct)
- 1b) (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch
- 1c) (Hiphil) to kill, put to death
- 1d) (Hophal)
- 1d1) to be killed, be put to death
- 1d1a) to die prematurely
- 1d1) to be killed, be put to death
- 1a) (Qal)
- מ ם Mem Fountain of water, a flow, a fountain of the Divine Wisdom [massive, overpower chaos] (Numeric value: 40)
- ו Vav Connection, Connecting realms and worlds or the dividing veil between them. [nail... And, Add, secure, hook] (Numeric value: 6)
- ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds or realms through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
- other combination found together (ומת מות יומת) see Exodus 21 and Mark 7
- 1) to die, kill, have one executed
- ↑ 04411 מָלוֹן malown [maw-lone’] MemLamedVavNun from 03885 LamedVavNun Stop over; n m; [BDB-533b] [{See TWOT on 1096 @@ "1096a" }] AV-inn 3, lodging place 2, lodgings 1, place where they lodged 1; 8
- 1) place of lodging, inn, khan