Exodus 6:1

God Promises Action

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for ¹under compulsion * he will let them go, and under compulsion * he will drive them out of his land."

Exodus 6:1 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 6:1

Then the Lord said unto Moses
In answer to the questions put to him, and the expostulations made with him: now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh:
in inflicting punishments on him: for with a strong hand shall he let them go; being forced to it by the mighty hand of God upon him; and it is by some rendered, "because of a strong hand" ^F19; so Jarchi; for this is not to be understood of the hand of Pharaoh, but of the hand of God: and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land:
not only be willing that they should go, but be urgent upon them to be gone, ( Exodus 12:33 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (hqzx dyb) "propter manum validam"; so some in Drusius.

Exodus 6:1 In-Context

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for under compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of his land."

2 God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am the LORD ;

3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD , I did not make Myself known to them.

4 "I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.

5 "Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 3:19, 20; Exodus 7:4, 5; Exodus 11:1; Exodus 12:31, 33, 39; Exodus 13:3

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "by a strong hand"
• [b] Lit "by a strong hand"