1Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou 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.
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And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. …
With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here, I. God silences Moses’s complaints with the assurance of success in this negotiation, repeating the promise made him in Exod. 3:20; After that, he will let you go . When Moses was at his wit’s end, wishing he had staid in Midian, rather than have come to Egypt to make bad worse—when he was quite at a loss what to do— Then the Lord said unto Moses , for the quieting of his mind, “ Now shalt t…
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