Sunday, September 24, 2023

Exodus 3:1-14, Annotated.

This translation is from the New American Standard Bible. Other translations are available hereInformation about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided in blue immediately below the scriptural text. Collections of scriptures dealing with related principles are hyperlinked at the end of this post.          

 

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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; journeyproceed

 

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 forthto 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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