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Text -- Exodus 11:2-10 (NET)
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11:2 Instruct the people that each man and each woman is to request from his or her neighbor items of silver and gold .”
11:3 (Now the Lord granted the people favor with the Egyptians . Moreover , the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt , respected by Pharaoh’s servants and by the Egyptian people .)
11:4 Moses said , “Thus says the Lord : ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt ,
11:5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die , from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne , to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill , and all the firstborn of the cattle .
11:6 There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt , such as there has never been , nor ever will be again .
11:7 But against any of the Israelites not even a dog will bark against either people or animals , so that you may know that the Lord distinguishes between Egypt and Israel .’
11:8 All these your servants will come down to me and bow down to me, saying , ‘Go , you and all the people who follow you,’ and after that I will go out .” Then Moses went out from Pharaoh in great anger .
11:9 The Lord said to Moses , “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt .”
11:10 So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh , but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart , and he did not release the Israelites from his land .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Moses |
PLAGUES OF EGYPT |
Rulers |
Quotations and Allusions |
Lies and Deceits |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
Judgments |
Sin |
Egyptians |
First-born |
Plague |
Miracles |
Israel |
PLAGUES, THE TEN |
God |
Heart |
Gold |
GOD, 2 |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
Disobedience to God |
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NET Notes: Exo 11:2 See D. Skinner, “Some Major Themes of Exodus,” Mid-America Theological Journal 1 (1977): 31-42.
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NET Notes: Exo 11:3 The presence of this clause about Moses, which is parenthetical in nature, further indicates why the Egyptians gave rather willingly to the Israelites...
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NET Notes: Exo 11:5 The firstborn in Egyptian and Israelite cultures was significant, but the firstborn of Pharaoh was most important. Pharaoh was considered a god, the s...
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NET Notes: Exo 11:7 The verb פָּלָה (palah) in Hiphil means “to set apart, make separate, make distinct.” See also Exod 8:...
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NET Notes: Exo 11:8 Heb “and he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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