(KJV) Exodus 61

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⥃God Promises Deliverance

[1] Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt2 thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong3 hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them4 out of his land. [2] And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I [am] the Lord5: [3] And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty6, but by my name7 Jehovah8 was I not known to them. [4] And I have also established9 my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their10 pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. [5] And I have also heard the groaning11 of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered12 my covenant. [6] Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I [am] the Lord13, and I will bring14 you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem15 you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: [7] And I will take16 you to me for a people, and I will be17 to you a God: and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under18 the burdens of the Egyptians. [8] And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear19 to give20 it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I [am21] the Lord.

[9] [¶]And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened22 not unto Moses for anguish23 of spirit, and for cruel bondage. [10] And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, [11] Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.24 [12] And Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children25 of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who [am26] of uncircumcised lips? [13] And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.27

⥃Genealogies of Moses and Aaron

[14] These [be] the heads28 of their fathers’ houses: The sons29 of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these [be30] the families of Reuben. [15] And the sons31 of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these [are] the families of Simeon.

[16] [¶]And these [are] the names of the sons32 of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath33, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi [were] an hundred34 thirty and seven years. [17] The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.35 [18] And the sons36 of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years37 of the life of Kohath [were] an hundred thirty and three years. [19] And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these [are] the families of Levi according to their generations.38 [20] And Amram39 took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years40 of the life of Amram [were] an hundred and thirty and seven years.

[21] [¶]And the sons of Izhar; Korah41, and Nepheg, and Zichri. [22] And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.42 [23] And Aaron took him Elisheba43, daughter of Amminadab4445, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. [24] And the sons of Korah46; Assir, and Elkanah47, and Abiasaph: these [are] the families of the Korhites. [25] And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him [one] of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas48: these [are] the heads49 of the fathers of the Levites according to their families. [26] These [are] that Aaron50 and Moses, to whom the Lord said, Bring51 out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies52. [27] These [are] they which spake53 to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring54 out the children of Israel from Egypt: these [are] that Moses and Aaron.

[28] [¶]And it came to pass on the day [when] the Lord spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt, [29] That the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I [am] the55 Lord: speak56 thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee. [30] And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I [am] of uncircumcised57 lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

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  1. Exod 6:1, God renews his promise by his name JEHOVAH; Exod 6:9, Moses vainly attempts to encourage the Israelites; Exod 6:10, He and Aaron are again sent to Pharaoh; Exod 6:14, The genealogy of Reuben, of Simeon, and of Levi, of whom came Moses and Aaron; Exod 6:26, The history resumed. ↩

  2. Exod 14:13; Num 23:23; Deut 32:39; 2Kgs 7:2, 2Kgs 7:19; 2Chr 20:17; Ps 12:5 ↩

  3. Exod 3:19-20; Deut 4:34; Ps 89:13, Ps 136:12; Isa 63:12; Ezek 20:33-34 ↩

  4. Exod 11:1, Exod 12:31, Exod 12:33, Exod 12:39 ↩

  5. or, Jehovah, Exod 6:6, Exod 6:8, Exod 14:18, Exod 17:1, Exod 20:2; Gen 15:7; Isa 42:8, Isa 43:11, Isa 43:15, Isa 44:6; Jer 9:24; Mal 3:6; Acts 17:24-25 ↩

  6. El shadday, God Almighty; for shadday is evidently of affinity with the Arabic shadid, strong, mighty, and shiddat, strength, might; so the LXX in Job render it παντοκρατωρ, Vulgate, in Pentateuch, Omnipotens, and Syriac, in Job, chasino. Gen 17:1, Gen 28:3, Gen 35:11, Gen 48:3 ↩

  7. If Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, did not know the name Jehovah, then Moses must have used it in Genesis by prolepsis, or anticipation. Mr. Locke and others read it interrogatively, for the negative particle, lo, not, has frequently this power in Hebrew: "I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, and by my name Jehovah was I not also made known unto them?" ↩

  8. Exod 3:14; Gen 12:7-8, Gen 13:18, Gen 22:14; Ps 68:4, JAH, Ps 83:18; Isa 42:8, Isa 44:6, Isa 52:5-6; John 8:58; Rev 1:4 ↩

  9. Gen 6:18, Gen 15:18, Gen 17:7-8, Gen 17:13, Gen 28:4; 2Sam 23:5; Isa 55:3 ↩

  10. Gen 15:13, Gen 17:8, Gen 23:4, Gen 26:3; Ps 105:12; Acts 7:5 ↩

  11. Exod 2:24, Exod 3:7; Ps 106:44; Isa 63:9 ↩

  12. Exod 2:24; Gen 8:1, Gen 9:15; Ps 105:8, Ps 106:45; Luke 1:54, Luke 1:72 ↩

  13. Exod 6:2, Exod 6:8, Exod 6:29; Ezek 20:7-9 ↩

  14. Exod 3:17, Exod 7:4; Deut 26:8; Ps 81:6, Ps 136:11-12 ↩

  15. Exod 15:13; Deut 4:23, Deut 7:8, Deut 15:15; 2Kgs 17:36; 1Chr 17:21; Neh 1:10; Isa 9:12, Isa 9:17, Isa 9:21 ↩

  16. Exod 19:5-6; Gen 17:7-8; Deut 4:20, Deut 7:6, Deut 14:2, Deut 26:18; 2Sam 7:23-24; Jer 31:33; Hos 1:10; 1Pet 2:10 ↩

  17. Exod 29:45-46; Deut 29:13; Zech 13:9; Matt 22:32; Rom 8:31; Heb 11:16; Rev 21:3, Rev 21:7 ↩

  18. Exod 5:4-5; Ps 81:6 ↩

  19. Heb. lift up my hand, The ancient mode of appealing to God was by lifting up the right hand, and was considered as a form of swearing. Hence yamin, in Hebrew the right hand, is in Arabic an oath, and as a verb, to take an oath. A similar custom prevailed among the heathens. See Virg. Ζn. 1. xii. v. 196. Gen 14:22; Deut 32:40; Ezek 20:5-6, Ezek 20:15, Ezek 20:23, Ezek 20:28, Ezek 20:42, Ezek 36:7, Ezek 47:14 ↩

  20. Exod 32:13; Gen 15:18, Gen 22:16-17, Gen 26:3, Gen 28:13, Gen 35:12 ↩

  21. Exod 6:2; Num 23:19; 1Sam 15:29 ↩

  22. Exod 5:21, Exod 14:12; Job 21:4; Prov 14:19 ↩

  23. Heb. shortness, or, straitness, Num 21:4 ↩

  24. Exod 6:29, Exod 3:10, Exod 5:1, Exod 5:23, Exod 7:1 ↩

  25. Exod 6:9, Exod 3:13, Exod 4:29-31, Exod 5:19-21 ↩

  26. The italics shew that this word has been supplied by our translators; hence it may be inferred by some that Moses was uncircumcised. The difficulty is in some measure cleared away, by using the word uncircumcised in the sense of unsuitable or incapacitated (see note on Exod 6:30), which agrees with Exod 4:10 where Moses complains of want of eloquence; but by substituting is for am in this place, the connection with the former part of the verse is preserved; "For if the chosen seed, the circumcised sons of Jacob, refuse to hear me," as though Moses had said, "how can I expect to make uncircumcised Pharaoh pay attention to me?" Exod 6:30, Exod 4:10; Lev 26:41; Deut 30:6; Isa 6:5; Jer 1:6, Jer 6:10, Jer 9:26; Acts 7:51 ↩

  27. Num 27:19, Num 27:23; Deut 31:14; Ps 91:11; Matt 4:6; 1Tim 1:18, 1Tim 5:21, 1Tim 6:13, 1Tim 6:17; 2Tim 2:4, 2Tim 4:1 ↩

  28. Exod 6:25; Josh 14:1, Josh 19:51; 1Chr 5:24, 1Chr 7:2, 1Chr 7:7, 1Chr 8:6 ↩

  29. Gen 46:9, Gen 49:3-4; Num 26:5-6; 1Chr 5:3 ↩

  30. Num 26:7; Josh 13:15, Josh 13:23 ↩

  31. Gen 46:10; Num 26:12-13; 1Chr 4:24, Nemuel, Jarib, Zerah ↩

  32. Gen 46:11; Num 3:17; 1Chr 6:1, 1Chr 6:16 ↩

  33. Num 26:57; 1Chr 23:6 ↩

  34. Exod 6:18, Exod 6:20; Gen 35:28, Gen 47:28, Gen 50:26 ↩

  35. Gen 46:11; Num 3:18, Shimei, 1Chr 6:17, 1Chr 23:7, Laadan, Shimei ↩

  36. Num 3:19, Izehar, Num 26:57; 1Chr 6:2, 1Chr 6:18 ↩

  37. Exod 6:16 ↩

  38. Num 3:20; 1Chr 6:19, 1Chr 23:21 ↩

  39. Exod 2:1-2; Num 26:59 ↩

  40. The Samaritan, LXX, Syriac, and one Hebrew manuscript add, "And Miriam their sister;" which some of the best critics suppose to have been originally in the text. Exod 6:16, Exod 6:18 ↩

  41. Exod 6:24; Num 16:1, Num 16:32, Num 26:10-11; 1Chr 6:37-38 ↩

  42. Lev 10:4; Neh 3:20 ↩

  43. Luke 1:5 ↩

  44. Num 1:7, Num 2:3; Ruth 4:19-20; 1Chr 2:10; Matt 1:4 ↩

  45. Exod 24:1, Exod 24:9; Lev 10:1-2; Num 3:2-4, Num 20:25, Num 26:60-61; 1Chr 6:3, 1Chr 24:1-2 ↩

  46. Exod 6:21; Num 16:1, Num 16:32, Num 26:9-11; 1Chr 6:22, 1Chr 6:33, 1Chr 6:37-38; Ps 84:1-12; Ps 85:1 *titles ↩

  47. 1Sam 1:1; 1Chr 6:23, 1Chr 6:27-28 ↩

  48. Num 25:7-13, Num 31:6; Josh 22:13, Josh 22:31-32, Josh 24:33; Judg 20:28; Ps 106:30-31 ↩

  49. Exod 6:14 ↩

  50. Exod 6:13, Exod 6:20; Josh 24:5; 1Sam 12:6, 1Sam 12:8; 1Chr 6:3; Ps 77:20, Ps 99:6; Mic 6:4 ↩

  51. Exod 6:7, Exod 3:10-11, Exod 20:2, Exod 32:1, Exod 32:7, Exod 32:11; Acts 7:35-36 ↩

  52. Exod 7:4, Exod 12:17, Exod 12:51, Exod 13:18; Gen 2:1; Num 33:1 ↩

  53. Exod 5:1-3, Exod 7:10 ↩

  54. Exod 6:13, Exod 6:26, Exod 32:7, Exod 33:1; Ps 77:20; Mic 6:4 ↩

  55. Exod 6:2, Exod 6:6, Exod 6:8 ↩

  56. Exod 6:11, Exod 7:2; Jer 1:7-8, Jer 1:17-19, Jer 23:28, Jer 26:2; Ezek 2:6-7, Ezek 3:11, Ezek 3:17; Matt 28:20; Acts 20:27 ↩

  57. Exod 6:12, Exod 4:10; 1Cor 9:16-17 ↩