Exodus 2:11--3:10

2:11

Moses <04872> [A.M. 2473. B.C. 1531. Moses.]

hard labor <05450> [burdens.]

2:12

looked <06437> [he looked.]

attacked <05221> [slew.]

If the Egyptian killed the Hebrew, Moses only acted agreeably to the divine law (Ge 9:6) in thus slaying the Egyptian; nor did he violate the law of Egypt; for, according to Diodorus Siculus (1. 1.  17), "he who saw a man killed, or violently assaulted on the highway, and did not rescue him, if he could, was punished with death." Moses, therefore, in this transaction, acted as a brave and good man; especially as at this time there was little probability of obtaining justice on an Egyptian murderer.

2:13

said <0559> [and he said.]

2:14

made <07760> [Who.]

ruler <08269> [a prince. Heb. a man, a prince.]

Moses <04872> [Moses.]

2:15

fled <01272> [fled.]

Midian <04080> [Midian.]

settled ......... settled <03427> [sat down.]

2:16

priest <03548> [the priest. or, prince.]

came <0935> [they came.]

2:17

shepherds <07462> [shepherds.]

watered <08248> [watered.]

2:18

[Jethro. or, Jether.]

[Raguel.]

2:19

Egyptian <04713> [an Egyptian.]

actually drew <01802> [and also.]

2:20

Call ....... eat <07121 0398> [call him.]

2:21

agreed <02974> [content.]

Zipporah <06855> [Zipporah.]

2:22

Gershom <01647> [Gershom. i.e., a stranger here.]

said <0559> [for he said.]

2:23

<01992> [A.M. cir. 2504. B.C. cir. 1500. in process.]

king <04428> [the king.]

groaned <0584> [sighed.]

desperate cry <07775> [cry.]

2:24

God heard .... God <08085 0430> [God heard.]

remembered <02142> [remembered.]

2:25

saw <07200> [looked.]

God ...... God <0430> [God.]

For {elohim,} God, Houbigant reads {aleyhem,} unto them; which is countenanced by the LXX., Vulgate, Chaldee, Coptic, and Arabic, and appears to have been the original reading.

understood <03045> [had respect. Heb. knew.]

3:1

<01961> [A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. kept.]

father-in-law <02859> [his father.]

mountain <02022> [the mountain.]

Horeb <02722> [Horeb.]

3:2

angel <04397> [angel.]

bush ...... bush ... ablaze <01197 05572> [bush burned.]

3:3

3:4

within <08432> [unto him.]

Moses ... Moses <04872> [Moses.]

3:5

approach <07126> [Draw not.]

<05394> [put off.]

3:6

God ...... God ..... God ...... God ................ God <0430> [I am.]

father <01> [thy father.]

Though the word {avicha,} "thy father," is here used in the singular, yet St. Stephen, quoting this passage (Ac. 7:32), uses the plural, [Lo Theos ton patron sou,] "the God of thy fathers;" and that this is the meaning, the following words prove. This reading is confirmed by the Samaritan and Coptic.

hid <05641> [hid.]

3:7

seen <07200> [I have.]

because <06440> [by reason.]

know <03045> [I know.]

3:8

down <03381> [I am.]

deliver <05337> [deliver.]

good <02896> [unto a good.]

Canaanites <03669> [Canaanites.]

3:9

cry <06818> [the cry.]

seen <07200> [and I have.]

3:10