Exodus 6:7

7 'Then I will take you ¹for My people, and ²I will be your God; and ³you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Exodus 6:7 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 6:7

And I will take you to me for a people
Out of the hands of the Egyptians, and out of their country, to be in a political sense his kingdom and subjects; and in a religious sense a holy people to himself, to fear, serve, worship, and glorify him, by walking according to laws and rules given them by him; and this he did by setting up and establishing a civil and ecclesiastical polity among them: and I will be to you a God;
their King and their God to rule over them, protect and defend them, they being a theocracy; and their covenant God and Father, giving them various spiritual privileges, the adoption, the glory, the covenant, the law, service, and promises: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God;
by the promises fulfilled, the favours granted, and the deliverances wrought for them: which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians;
see the preceding verse ( Exodus 6:6 ) .

Exodus 6:7 In-Context

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.

6 "Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, 'I am the LORD , and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

7 'Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

8 'I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the LORD .' "

9 So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their despondency and cruel bondage.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 7:6; 2 Samuel 7:24
• 2. Genesis 17:7; Exodus 29:45; Leviticus 11:45; Leviticus 26:12, 13, 45; Deuteronomy 29:13
• 3. Exodus 16:12; Isaiah 41:20; Isaiah 49:23, 26; Isaiah 60:16

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "to Me for a people"
• [b] Lit "to you for a God"