5And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
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And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: …
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
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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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