Exodus 39:1

39:1

blue <08504> [the blue.]

garments .......... garments <0899> [cloths.]

made ........ sanctuary ... made holy <06944 06213> [holy place.]

sanctuary .... holy <06944> [the holy.]

Exodus 2:1-25

2:1

household <01004> [A.M. 2432. B.C. 1572. of the house.]

2:2

saw <07200> [A.M. 2433. B.C. 1571. she saw.]

2:3

longer able <03201 05750> [could not.]

basket <08392> [an ark.]

papyrus <01573> [bulrushes.]

{Gom‚,} is the papyrus, so famous in all antiquity. It grows on the banks of the Nile, and in marshy grounds; the stalk rises to the height of six or seven cubits above the water, is triangular, and terminates in a crown of small filaments, resembling hair. This reed was of the greatest use to the Egyptians; the pith serving them for food, and the woody part to build vessels with; which vessels frequently appear on various monuments of Egyptian antiquity. That boats were made of this reed is also attested by Pliny and others.

bitumen <02564> [with slime.]

2:4

2:5

daughter <01323> [daughter.]

Nile ......... river <02975> [herself.]

As the word herself is not in the original, Dr. A. Clarke is of opinion that it was for the purpose of washing, not her person, but her clothes, that Pharaoh's daughter came to the river; which was an employment not beneath even king's daughters in those primitive times.

saw <07200> [when she.]

2:6

compassion <02550> [she had compassion.]

2:7

2:8

<03212> [Go.]

mother <0517> [mother.]

2:10

son <01121> [and he.]

Moses <04872> [Moses. Drawn out. Because.]

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.]

Exodus 6:1-30

6:1

see <07200> [Now shalt.]

compelled ............. strong <02389> [with a strong.]

drive <01644> [drive them.]

6:2

Lord <03068> [I am the Lord. or, Jehovah.]

6:3

God Almighty <07706 0410> [God Almighty.]

{El shadday,} God Almighty; for {shadday} is evidently of affinity with the Arabic {shadid,} strong, mighty, and {shiddat,} strength, might; so the LXX. in Job render it [panto krator,] Vulgate, in Pentateuch, {Omnipotens,} and Syriac, in Job, {chasino.}

name <08034> [but by my name.]

If Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, did not know the name Jehovah, then Moses must have used it in Genesis by prolepsis, or anticipation. Mr. Locke and others read it interrogatively, for the negative particle, {lo,} not, has frequently this power in Hebrew: "I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, and by my name Jehovah was I not also made known unto them?"

Lord <03068> [JEHOVAH.]

[JAH.]

6:4

established <06965> [established.]

land ....... living <0776 04033> [the land of their.]

6:5

groaning <05009> [the groaning.]

remembered <02142> [I have remembered.]

6:6

Lord <03068> [I am the Lord.]

bring ... out <03318> [I will bring.]

redeem <01350> [redeem.]

6:7

take <03947> [will take.]

God ............ God <0430> [I will be.]

enslavement <05450> [from under.]

6:8

swore <05375> [swear. Heb. lift up my hand.]

The ancient mode of appealing to God was by lifting up the right hand, and was considered as a form of swearing. Hence {yamin,} in Hebrew the right hand, is in Arabic an oath, and as a verb, to take an oath. A similar custom prevailed among the heathens. See Virg. ’n. 1. xii. v. 196.

give ............ give <05414> [to give.]

Lord <03068> [I am.]

6:9

listen <08085> [hearkened.]

discouragement <07115> [anguish. Heb. shortness. or, straitness.]

6:11

6:12

Israelites <01121> [children.]

difficulty <06189> [am.]

The italics shew that this word has been supplied by our translators; hence it may be inferred by some that Moses was uncircumcised. The difficulty is in some measure cleared away, by using the word uncircumcised in the sense of unsuitable or incapacitated, see ver. 30, which agrees with ch. 4:10 where Moses complains of want of eloquence; but by substituting is for am in this place, the connection with the former part of the verse is preserved; "For if the chosen seed, the circumcised sons of Jacob, refuse to hear me," as though Moses had said, "how can I expect to make uncircumcised Pharaoh pay attention to me?"

6:13

6:14

heads <07218> [the heads.]

sons <01121> [The sons.]

heads ......................... clans <07218 04940> [these be.]

6:15

sons ............. son <01121> [sons.]

[Nemuel. Jarib. Zerah.]

6:16

sons <01121> [sons.]

Kohath <06955> [Kohath.]

137 <03967> [an hundred.]

6:17

[Shimei.]

[Laadan. Shimei.]

6:18

sons <01121> [sons.]

[Izehar.]

length ....... years <08141> [and the years.]

6:19

6:20

Amram ................. Amram's <06019> [Amram.]

length ....... years <08141> [and the years.]

The Samaritan, LXX., Syriac, and one Hebrew MS. add, "And Miriam their sister;" which some of the best critics suppose to have been originally in the text.

6:21

Korah <07141> [Korah.]

6:22

6:23

Elisheba <0472> [Elisheba.]

Amminadab <05992> [Amminadab.]

Nadab <05070> [Nadab.]

6:24

Korah <07141> [Korah.]

Elkanah <0511> [Elkanah.]

6:25

Phinehas <06372> [Phinehas.]

heads <07218> [the heads.]

6:26

Aaron <0175> [That Aaron.]

Bring <03318> [Bring.]

regiments <06635> [armies.]

6:27

speaking <01696> [spake.]

bring <03318> [to bring.]

6:29

Lord <03068> [I am the.]

said ........ Tell .......... telling <01696> [speak.]

6:30

difficulty <06189> [uncircumcised.]