_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._ But, behold - Hebrew, 'if,' 'perhaps,' 'they will not believe me,' what evidence can I produce of my divine mission? There was still a want of fu... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, WHAT IS THAT IN THINE HAND? AND HE SAID, A ROD._ What is that in thine hand? The question was put, not to elicit information which God required, but to draw the particular attention of Moses. A ROD - probably the shepherd's crook; among the Arabs, a long staff with a... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Put ... hand into thy bosom - the open part of his outer robe, worn about the girdle.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Take ... water ... out of... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ I am not eloquent. It is supposed that Moses laboured under a natural defect of utterance, or had a difficulty in the free an... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ MOSES ... RETURNED TO JETHRO. Being in his service, it was right to obtain h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES IN MIDIAN, GO, RETURN INTO EGYPT: FOR ALL THE MEN ARE DEAD WHICH SOUGHT THY LIFE._ All the men are dead. The death of the Egyptian monarch took place in the 429th year of the Hebrew sojourn in that land; and that event, according to the law of Egypt, took off his prosc... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ Took ... wife, and ... sons, and set them upon an ass - Septuagint, 'asses.' Those animals are not now used in the desert of Sinai, except by the Arabs... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT SAY UNTO PHARAOH, THUS SAITH THE LORD, ISRAEL IS MY SON, EVEN MY FIRSTBORN:_ Israel is my son, even my first-born. The expression indicates special affection and interest.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ If thou refuse ... I will slay thy son, even thy first-born. The death of the first-born in the palace, and throughout the land of Egypt, as an act of retri... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS BY THE WAY IN THE INN, THAT THE LORD MET HIM, AND SOUGHT TO KILL HIM._ Inn - Hebrew, the inn; a halting-place for the night. SOUGHT TO KILL HIM - i:e., he was either overwhelmed with mental distress or overtaken by a sudden and dangerous malady. The narrative is obscure; but t... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO HE LET HIM GO: THEN SHE SAID, A BLOODY HUSBAND THOU ART, BECAUSE OF THE CIRCUMCISION._ So he let him go. Moses recovered; but the remembrance of this critical period in his life would stimulate the Hebrew legislator to enforce a faithful attention to the rite of circumcision, when it was establ... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID TO AARON, GO INTO THE WILDERNESS TO MEET MOSES. AND HE WENT, AND MET HIM IN THE MOUNT OF GOD, AND KISSED HIM._ The Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. The wilderness was not anciently in the state of desolation and dreary solitude which it now exhibits, othe... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES TOLD AARON ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD WHO HAD SENT HIM, AND ALL THE SIGNS WHICH HE HAD COMMANDED HIM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES AND AARON WENT AND GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THE ELDERS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL:_ Moses and Aaron went - toward Egypt, Zipporah and her sons having been sent back (cf. Exodus 18:2). GATHERED ... ALL THE ELDERS. Aaron was spokesman, and Moses performed the appointed miracles, through which... [ Continue Reading ]