Exodus 5:1-9, Annotated.

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And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’” 

 

²But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.” 

 

³Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, otherwise He will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.” 

 

⁴But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labors!” ⁵ Again Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their labors!” ⁶ So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters over the people and their foremen, saying, ⁷ “You are no longer to give the people straw to make brick as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves. ⁸ But the quota of bricks which they were making previously, you shall impose on them; you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are lazy, therefore they cry out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ ⁹ Let the labor be heavier on the men, and let them work at it so that they will pay no attention to false words.”

 

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obey = שָׁמַע = šāmaʿ  Blue Letter Bible   listen to, obey; perceive by ear; hear with attention or interest; give heed; consent, agree; yield to; obey, be obedient; hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); hear and answer

 

voice = קוֹל = qôl  Blue Letter Bible  proclaim; command, entreat; claim; sing out; thundering; with a loud voice; voice, sound, noise;  call aloud; a voice or sound; bleating, crackling, lowing, neighing, stamping of feet; noise of inanimate objects; lightness, frivolity

 

know =יָדַע= yāḏaʿ  Blue Letter Bible  perceive and see, find out and discern; discriminate, distinguish; know by experience; recognize; be acquainted with; know (a person carnally); know how, be skillful in; have knowledge, be wise; made known, be or become known, be revealed; be instructed; privy to; seeing; observe with the eyes; be aware of; get to know, discover; turn the mind to anything, care about, see about

 

draw = פָּרַע = pāra  Blue Letter Bible to let go, let loose, ignore, let alone; avoid, neglect; be loosened of restraint; overlook/reject counsel; unbridled;  lawless; cause to refrain; dismiss; refuse  

 

work = מַעֲשֶׂה = maʿăśê  Blue Letter Bible  deed, thing done, act; work, labour; undertaking, enterprise; 

achievement; thing made; product

 

labors = סְבָלָה = sᵊḇālâ Blue Letter Bible burden, forced labour, compulsory service, burden bearing; wearisome and laborious toils 

 

taskmasters = נָגַשׂ = nāḡaś Blue Letter Bible  to press, drive, oppress, exact, exert demanding pressure; driver, taskmaster, ruler, oppressor, tyrant, lord, exactor of tribute (participle); to tax, harass, tyrannize:—distress, driver, exact(-or), oppress(-or); reign, wield power; drive vehemently; press, drive to work; impel, urge, drive; demand; press or harass another

 

quota = מַתְכֹּנֶת = maṯkōneṯ Blue Letter Bible measurement, proportion, tale

 

pay attention to = שָׁעָה = šāʿâ  Blue Letter Bible  to look at or to, regard, gaze at or about;  inspect; consider; regard; have respect; spare; turn; look around, look to; look upon

 

labor = עֲבֹדָה = ʿăḇōḏâ Blue Letter Bible service; work of any kind; bondage, bondservant; laborious work; labour of servant or slave

 

work = עָשָׂה = ʿāśâ  Blue Letter Bible  to do, fashion, accomplish, make; work, produce; to deal (with); to act, act with effect, effect; attend to, put in order; to observe, celebrate;advance; follow, fulfill; be industrious, labor; yield; produce by labor

 

Exodus 4:18-31, Annotated.

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Then Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” ¹⁹Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” ²⁰So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.

 

²¹The Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. ²²Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn. ²³So I said to you, ‘Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.”’”

 

²⁴Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. ²⁵Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it at Moses’ feet, and she said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me.” ²⁶So He let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood”—because of the circumcision.

 

²⁷Now the Lord said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. ²⁸Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which He had sent him, and all the signs that He had commanded him to do. ²⁹Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel; ³⁰and Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses. He then performed the signs in the sight of the people. ³¹So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.

 

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go = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible  go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed

 

see  = רָאָה= rā'â  Blue Letter Bible  to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider; learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out; consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish; gaze at; enjoy, have experience, take heed; spy, stare; enjoy the light; be pleased with the sight; provide or care for, go to see

 

perform= עָשָׂה = ʿāśâ  Blue Letter Bible  to do, fashion, accomplish, make; work, produce; to deal (with); to act, act with effect, effect; attend to, put in order; to observe, celebrate; advance; follow, fulfill; be industrious, labor; yield; produce by labor

 

go = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible  go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed

 

went = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible  go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed

 

went = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible  go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed

 

believed = אָמַן = 'āman  Blue Letter Bible  to support, confirm, be faithful;  to be established, be faithful, be carried, make firm; pillars, supporters of the door; to trust, to be certain, to believe in; to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain; to prop, stay, sustain, support, lean on, build on; to be founded, firm, stable, confide in

 

heard = שָׁמַע = šāmaʿ  Blue Letter Bible   listen to, obey; perceive by ear; hear with attention or interest; give heed; consent, agree; yield to; obey, be obedient; hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); hear and answer

 

concerned = פָּקַד = pāqaḏ Blue Letter Bible to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after; to pay attention to, observe; observe (with care, practical interest); to go to; search

 

bowed low = קָדַד = qāḏaḏ  Blue Letter Bible  to shrivel up, i.e. contract or bend the body (or neck) in deference:—bow (down) (the) head, stoop; incline; cleave

 

worship = שָׁחָה = šāḥâ  Blue Letter Bible  bow down; depress; prostrate oneself; fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship; bow down, prostrate oneself, before a monarch or superior, in homage, etc.; sink down; honor God with prayers; submit oneself

 

Exodus 4:1-17, Annotated.

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Then Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’” ²The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A staff.” ³Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. ⁴But the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand— ⁵“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

⁶The Lord furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. ⁷Then He said, “Put your hand into your bosom again.” So he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh. ⁸“If they will not believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe the witness of the last sign. ⁹But if they will not believe even these two signs or heed what you say, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

¹⁰Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” ¹¹The Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? ¹²Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say.” ¹³But he said, “Please, Lord, now send the message by whomever You will.”

¹⁴Then the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, “Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. ¹⁵You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what you are to do. ¹⁶Moreover, he shall speak for you to the people; and he will be as a mouth for you and you will be as God to him. ¹⁷You shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.”

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believe = אָמַן = 'āman  Blue Letter Bible  to support, confirm, be faithful;  to be established, be faithful, be carried, make firm; pillars, supporters of the door; to trust, to be certain, to believe in; to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain; to prop, stay, sustain, support, lean on, build on; to be founded, firm, stable, confide in

 

listen, heed = שָׁמַע = šāmaʿ  Blue Letter Bible   listen to, obey; perceive by ear; hear with attention or interest; give heed; consent, agree; yield to; obey, be obedient; hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); hear and answer

 

go = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible  go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed

 

even I = הָיָה = hāyâ  Blue Letter Bible   become, come to pass; occur, take place, come about; come into being; to become like; come into being; to be intent on a thing; to be with one; to be made or done; to experience; of continuous state or condition; beginning and continuance

 

teach= יָרָה = yarah Blue Letter Bible to point out; show; to direct, teach, instruct; throw, shoot, cast, pour; flow as water (i.e. to rain); to point out (as if by aiming the finger); direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew; lay foundations; to sprinkle, water; send out the hand

 

Exodus 3:15-22, Annotated.

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¹⁵God, furthermore, said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations. ¹⁶Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt. ¹⁷So I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’ ¹⁸They will pay heed to what you say; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’¹⁹But I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you to go, except under compulsion. ²⁰So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go. ²¹I will grant this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

 

sent = שָׁלַח = šālaḥ  Blue Letter Bible   stretch out; extend, direct; shoot forth (of branches); reach forth; sow, spread, stretch forth; to send, send away; to let loose; to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out or away; to let go, set free; to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled; forsake, give (up); eave, let depart; drive cattle to pasture

 

to = אֵל = 'ēl  Blue Letter Bible   to, unto (of motion); direction, not necessarily physical motion; concerning, in regard to, in reference to, on account of; in between, in within, to within, unto (idea of motion to); in among; denoting motion towards; tens to anything; verge to or towards any place; turning or direction; even to; in respect to; because of; concerning; the direction of the mind; concerning; according to; motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; the direction of the mind; directed or disposed towards

 

forever = עוֹלָם = ôlām  Blue Letter Bible  long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient; forever, always; perpetuity; continuous existence, perpetual; everlasting, indefinite or unending future, eternity; time out of mind (past or future); always; unending

 

generations = דּוֹר = dôr Blue Letter Bible   period, age, generation (period of time); generation (those living during a period); generation (characterized by quality, condition, class of men); dwelling-place, habitation; a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; circuit of the years of life; forever and ever; including both past and future 

 

indeed concerned = פָּקַד = pāqaḏ Blue Letter Bible to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after; to pay attention to, observe; observe (with care, practical interest); to go to; search

 

bring you up = עָלָה = ʿālâ  Blue Letter Bible to go up, ascend, climb; to be taken up, be brought up, be taken away; to be carried away, be led up; lift (self) up; perfect; recover; restore; from low place to high; go up after; bring up persons; cause to ascend; go from a lower region to a higher; to increase, to become strong; to be elevated

 

affliction = עֳנִי = ʿŏnî  Blue Letter Bible   affliction, poverty, misery; depression; trouble

 

pay heed = שָׁמַע = šāmaʿ  Blue Letter Bible   listen to, obey; perceive by ear; hear with attention or interest; give heed; consent, agree; yield to; obey, be obedient; hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); hear and answer

 

stretch out = שָׁלַח = šālaḥ  Blue Letter Bible   stretch out; extend, direct; shoot forth (of branches); reach forth; sow, spread, stretch forth; to send, send away; to let loose; to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out or away; to let go, set free; to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled; forsake, give (up); eave, let depart; drive cattle to pasture

 

hand = יָד = yāḏ Blue Letter Bible hand; strength, power (fig.); side (of land); part, portion (metaph.) (fig.); power, means, direction; aid, assistance; fellowship; force

 

strike = נָכָה = nāḵâ  Blue Letter Bible  strike, smite, hit, beat, slay, kill, slaughter, murder; beat, scourge; give a thrust; attack; destroy, conquer, subjugate, ravage; chastise, punish; send judgment upon; give stripes; be defeated

 

miracles = פָּלָא = pala'  Blue Letter Bible  beyond one's power; extraordinary, hard, difficult, arduous; marvelous, wonderful, surpassing, great; singular, distinguished; wondrous

 

Exodus 3:1-14, Annotated.

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Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. ²The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. ³So Moses said, “I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.” ⁴When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” ⁵Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” ⁶He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

 

⁷The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. ⁸So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. ⁹Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

 

¹⁰Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.” ¹¹But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” ¹²And He said, “Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.”

 

¹³Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” ¹⁴God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

 

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turn aside = סוּר = sûr  Blue Letter Bible  to turn aside, depart; to be removed; to come to an end; depose; retract, abolish; to be taken away; to turn off; eschew; pluck away, put away; made to depart, thrust away; cause to turn aside, depart

 

now = נָא = nā' Blue Letter Bible   I pray, now, please; used in entreaty or exhortation; a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty; oh; expresses an entreaty or admonition

 

see  = רָאָה= rā'â  Blue Letter Bible  to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider; learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out; consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish; gaze at; enjoy, have experience, take heed; spy, stare; enjoy the light; be pleased with the sight; provide or care for, go to see

 

marvelous = גָּדוֹל = gāḏôl  Blue Letter Bible  great (in any sense); large (in magnitude and extent); in importance; great, distinguished (of men); mighty; noble; distinguished

 

sight = מַרְאֶה = mar'ê  Blue Letter Bible  sight, appearance, vision; what is seen; power of seeing;  pattern, to see; form; aspect

 

turned aside = סוּר = sûr  Blue Letter Bible  to turn aside, depart; to be removed; to come to an end; depose; retract, abolish; to be taken away; to turn off; eschew; pluck away, put away; made to depart, thrust away; cause to turn aside, depart

 

look  = רָאָה= rā'â  Blue Letter Bible  to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider; learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out; consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish; gaze at; enjoy, have experience, take heed; spy, stare; enjoy the light; be pleased with the sight; provide or care for, go to see

 

afraid = יָרֵא = yārē' Blue Letter Bible  fear, revere, be afraid; tremble; stand in awe of, be awed; reverence, honor, respect; venerate; admire; be dreadful; cause astonishment and awe, be held in awe; inspire reverence or godly fear or awe; to make afraid, terrify; shoot, pour; morally to revere

 

look = נָבַט = nāḇaṭ  Blue Letter Bible  look,  to regard, show regard to, pay attention to, consider; look intently at; regard with pleasure, favor or care; behold; desire, gloat

 

seen  = רָאָה= rā'â  Blue Letter Bible  to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider; learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out; consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish; gaze at; enjoy, have experience, take heed; spy, stare; enjoy the light; be pleased with the sight; provide or care for, go to see

 

affliction = עֳנִי = ʿŏnî  Blue Letter Bible   affliction, poverty, misery; depression; trouble

 

people = עַם = ʿam  Blue Letter Bible   the whole human race; people, nation; persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men; kinsman, kindred, relatives; a people as a congregated unit; tribe, flock; folk; inhabitants of a city, locality

 

given heed = שָׁמַע = šāmaʿ  Blue Letter Bible   listen to, obey; perceive by ear; hear with attention or interest; give heed; consent, agree; yield to; to obey, be obedient; hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); hear and answer

 

cry = צְעָקָה = ṣᵊʿāqâ Blue Letter Bible  cry, outcry; outcry (against); cry of distress(especially as heard by God); shriek

 

aware =יָדַע= yāḏaʿ  Blue Letter Bible  perceive and see, find out and discern; discriminate, distinguish; know by experience; recognize; be acquainted with; know (a person carnally); know how, be skillful in; have knowledge, be wise; made known, be or become known, be revealed; be instructed; privy to; seeing; observe with the eyes; be aware of; get to know, discover; turn the mind to anything, care about, see about

 

sufferings = מַכְאֹב = maḵ'ōḇ  Blue Letter Bible  pain, sorrow; anguish or (figuratively) affliction: —grief; mental pain

 

come down = יָרַד = yāraḏ Blue Letter Bible  to go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down; to bring or send down; cause to flow down; to be cast down, fall; be prostrated

 

deliver = נָצַל = nāṣal Blue Letter Bible to snatch away, deliver, rescue; to be torn out or away; defend; preserve; draw out, pull out

 

cry = צְעָקָה = ṣᵊʿāqâ Blue Letter Bible  cry, outcry; outcry (against); cry of distress(especially as heard by God); shriek

 

come = בּוֹא = bô' Blue Letter Bible to go in, enter, come, go, come in; to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring upon; carry; fetch; follow; entering into specific relations; walk, associate with

 

seen  = רָאָה= rā'â  Blue Letter Bible  to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider; learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out; consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish; gaze at; enjoy, have experience, take heed; spy, stare; enjoy the light; be pleased with the sight; provide or care for, go to see

 

come = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible  go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed

 

now = עַתָּה = ʿatâ  Blue Letter Bible  now; at this time; henceforth; straightway, this time; already; presently; the present time

 

send = שָׁלַח = šālaḥ  Blue Letter Bible   stretch out; extend, direct; shoot forth (of branches); reach forth; sow, spread, stretch forth; to send, send away; to let loose; to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out or away; to let go, set free; to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled; forsake, give (up); eave, let depart; drive cattle to pasture

 

bring  = יָצָא = yāṣā'  Blue Letter Bible  to cause to go or come out, bring out, lead out; to go out, to carry, pluck, pull out; send with commandment, shoot forth; carry or bring out; take or draw out; come out, exit, go forth; to deliver; bring forth (out, up), carry out; go forth; to rise 

 

certainly = כִּי = kî Blue Letter Bible  assured(-ly); doubtless; truly; that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since; forasmuch as, for therefore; inasmuch as; while; on account of

 

be = הָיָה = hāyâ  Blue Letter Bible   become, come to pass; occur, take place, come about; come into being; to become like; come into being; to be intent on a thing; to be with one; to be made or done; to experience; of continuous state or condition; beginning and continuance

 

with = עִם = ʿim Blue Letter Bible  Accompanying; beside; among, between; fellowship and companionship; together with; in conjunction with; the companionship of sufferings or prosperity; of a common lot; resemblance generally; close to, beside; in the service of; in the custody or care of; friendly with; in one's consciousness, whether of knowledge or memory or purpose; together; a common lot; near

 

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What We Can Learn From Jesus' Nativity: The Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38)

 

Wisdom Principles--Fortitude