Exodus 4:18-31
Jethro .......................... Jethro <03500 03503> [Jethro. Heb. Jether.]
<03212> [Let me go.]
see <07200> [and see.]
peace <03212 07965> [Go in peace.]
In the LXX. and Coptic, the following addition is made to this verse: [Meta de tas Lemeras tas pollas ekeinas eteleut‚sen ho basileus Aigyptou,] "After these many days, the king of Egypt died." This was probably an ancient side-note, which crept into the text, as it appeared to throw light on the next verse.
Midian <04080> [Midian.]
A country in Arabia Petr‘a, on the eastern coast of the Red Sea, near Mount Sinai. This place is still called by the Arabs the Land of Midian, or of Jethro. Abulfeda, speaking of Midian, says, "Madyan is a city, in ruins, on the shore of the Red Sea, on the opposite side to Tabuc, from which it is distant about six days' journey. At Midian may be seen the famous well at which Moses watered the flocks of Shoƒib, (Jethro.) This city was the capital of the tribe of Midian in the days of the Israelites."
men <0582> [for all.]
staff ... God <04294 0430> [the rod of God.]
wonders <04159> [wonders.]
harden <02388> [I will harden.]
Israel <03478> [Israel.]
place where they stopped for the night <04411> [the inn.]
The account in this and the two following verses, although rather obscure, seems to imply, that on their way to the land of Egypt, an angel appeared to Moses, and sought to kill his son, on account of his father's non-observance of the Lord's positive command to Abraham, that every man child of the Jewish nation, or born in his house in servitude, should be circumcised on the eighth day; and the Zipporah, at the command of Moses, immediately fulfilled the injunction, and thus averted the wrath of God, denounced against the disobedient: "The uncircumcised man child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people." .# Ge 17:14
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
sought <01245> [sought.]
[a sharp stone. or, knife.]
touched ..... feet <05060 07272> [cast it. Heb made it touch. a bloody.]
wilderness <03212 04057> [Go into.]
mountain <02022> [the mount.]
kiss <05401> [kissed him.]
told Aaron <05046 0175> [told Aaron.]
signs <0226> [and all.]
Aaron <0175> [And Aaron.]
did ... signs <06213 0226> [did the.]
believed <0539> [believed.]
attended <06485> [visited.]
seen <07200> [looked.]
bowed down <06915> [bowed.]
