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Text -- Exodus 4:18-31 (NET)

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The Return of Moses
4:18 So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” 4:19 The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” 4:20 Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand. 4:21 The Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go. 4:22 You must say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is my son, my firstborn, 4:23 and I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’” 4:24 Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him. 4:25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.” 4:26 So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.) 4:27 The Lord said to Aaron, “Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss. 4:28 Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him and all the signs that he had commanded him. 4:29 Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders. 4:30 Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people, 4:31 and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Aaron a son of Amram; brother of Moses,son of Amram (Kohath Levi); patriarch of Israel's priests,the clan or priestly line founded by Aaron
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jethro priest of Midian; father-in-law of Moses
 · Midian resident(s) of the region of Midian
 · Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law
 · Pharaoh the king who ruled Egypt when Moses was born,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in Abraham's time,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in Joseph's time,the title of the king who ruled Egypt when Moses was born,the title of the king who refused to let Israel leave Egypt,the title of the king of Egypt whose daughter Solomon married,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in the time of Isaiah,the title Egypt's ruler just before Moses' time
 · Zipporah wife of Moses


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Moses | Aaron | Rulers | GENESIS, 1-2 | Zipporah | ZIPPORAH, OR ZIPPORAH | GERSHOM | Miracles | BLOODY | INN | Circumcision | Adoption | TARGUM | JETHER | Government | Women | Heart | MIDIAN; MIDIANITES | Foreskin | PLAGUES OF EGYPT | more
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NET Notes: Exo 4:18 This verb is parallel to the preceding cohortative and so also expresses purpose: “let me go that I may return…and that I may see.”

NET Notes: Exo 4:19 The text clearly stated that Pharaoh sought to kill Moses; so this seems to be a reference to Pharaoh’s death shortly before Moses’ return...

NET Notes: Exo 4:20 The verb would literally be rendered “and returned”; however, the narrative will record other happenings before he arrived in Egypt, so an...

NET Notes: Exo 4:21 Or “so that.”

NET Notes: Exo 4:22 The metaphor uses the word “son” in its connotation of a political dependent, as it was used in ancient documents to describe what was int...

NET Notes: Exo 4:23 The construction is very emphatic. The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) gives it an immediacy and a vividness, as if God i...

NET Notes: Exo 4:24 The next section (vv. 24-26) records a rather strange story. God had said that if Pharaoh would not comply he would kill his son – but now God w...

NET Notes: Exo 4:25 U. Cassuto explains that she was saying, “I have delivered you from death, and your return to life makes you my bridegroom a second time, this t...

NET Notes: Exo 4:26 The Hebrew simply has לַמּוּלֹת (lammulot, “to the circumcision[s]”). The phrase exp...

NET Notes: Exo 4:27 Heb “and kissed him.”

NET Notes: Exo 4:28 This verb and the last one in the verse are rendered with the past perfect nuance because they refer to what the Lord had done prior to Moses’ t...

NET Notes: Exo 4:29 These are the leaders of the tribes who represented all the people. Later, after the exodus, Moses will select the most capable of them and others to ...

NET Notes: Exo 4:30 Heb “And Aaron spoke.”

NET Notes: Exo 4:31 The verb וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲוּוּ (vayyishtakhavu) is u...

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