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Text -- Exodus 2:12-25 (NET)
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2:12 He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand .
2:13 When he went out the next day , there were two Hebrew men fighting . So he said to the one who was in the wrong , “Why are you attacking your fellow Hebrew?”
2:14 The man replied , “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian ?” Then Moses was afraid , thinking , “Surely what I did has become known .”
2:15 When Pharaoh heard about this event , he sought to kill Moses . So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian , and he settled by a certain well .
2:16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters , and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock .
2:17 When some shepherds came and drove them away , Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock .
2:18 So when they came home to their father Reuel , he asked , “Why have you come home so early today ?”
2:19 They said , “An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds , and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock !”
2:20 He said to his daughters , “So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man ? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us.”
2:21 Moses agreed to stay with the man , and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
2:22 When she bore a son , Moses named him Gershom , for he said , “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land .”
The Call of the Deliverer
2:23 During that long period of time the king of Egypt died , and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor . They cried out , and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God .
2:24 God heard their groaning , God remembered his covenant with Abraham , with Isaac , and with Jacob ,
2:25 God saw the Israelites , and God understood ….
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NET Notes -> Exo 2:12; Exo 2:12; Exo 2:12; Exo 2:12; Exo 2:13; Exo 2:13; Exo 2:13; Exo 2:13; Exo 2:13; Exo 2:13; Exo 2:14; Exo 2:14; Exo 2:14; Exo 2:14; Exo 2:14; Exo 2:14; Exo 2:15; Exo 2:15; Exo 2:15; Exo 2:15; Exo 2:15; Exo 2:15; Exo 2:16; Exo 2:16; Exo 2:16; Exo 2:17; Exo 2:17; Exo 2:17; Exo 2:17; Exo 2:18; Exo 2:18; Exo 2:18; Exo 2:18; Exo 2:19; Exo 2:19; Exo 2:19; Exo 2:20; Exo 2:20; Exo 2:20; Exo 2:20; Exo 2:20; Exo 2:21; Exo 2:21; Exo 2:22; Exo 2:22; Exo 2:22; Exo 2:23; Exo 2:23; Exo 2:23; Exo 2:23; Exo 2:23; Exo 2:24; Exo 2:24; Exo 2:25; Exo 2:25
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NET Notes: Exo 2:13 Heb “your neighbor.” The word רֵעֶךָ (re’ekha) appears again in 33:11 to describe the ease with ...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:14 The term הַדָּבָר (haddavar, “the word [thing, matter, incident]”) functions here like a p...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:15 The word has the definite article, “the well.” Gesenius lists this use of the article as that which denotes a thing that is yet unknown to...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:16 This also has the ingressive sense, “began to fill,” but for stylistic reasons is translated simply “fill” here.
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NET Notes: Exo 2:18 Two observations should be made at this point. First, it seems that the oppression at the well was a regular part of their routine because their fathe...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:19 The construction is emphatic with the use of the perfect tense and its infinitive absolute: דָלָה דָּ&...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:21 The words “in marriage” are implied, and have been supplied in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Exo 2:22 Like the naming of Moses, this naming that incorporates a phonetic wordplay forms the commemorative summary of the account just provided. Moses seems ...
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NET Notes: Exo 2:24 The two verbs “heard” and “remembered,” both preterites, say far more than they seem to say. The verb שָׁ...
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