Exodus 19:3

3 En Mozes klom op tot God. En de HEERE riep tot hem van den berg, zeggende: Aldus zult gij tot het huis van Jakob spreken, en den kinderen Israels verkondigen:

Exodus 19:3 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 19:3

And Moses went up unto God
Who was in the pillar of cloud upon the top of the mount; this was on the second day, according to the Targum of Jonathan: "the Lord called unto him out of the mountain"; or had called unto him, as Aben Ezra, since without his leave he could not have gone up. He called to him out of the cloud upon the top of the mountain to come up, and being come near him, he called to him, and spoke with an articulate voice, as follows:

saying, thus shalt thou say, to the house of Jacob, and tell the
children of Israel;
which are the same, and are described as descending from the same person, who was called by both names; the one was his name in the former and lower state of his life, the other in the latter and more prosperous one; and his posterity are called by these two names, as Bishop Patrick observes, to put them in mind, that they who had lately been as low as Jacob, when he went to Padanaram, were now grown as great as God made him when he came from thence, and was called Israel.

Exodus 19:3 In-Context

1 In de derde maand, na het uittrekken der kinderen Israels uit Egypteland, ten zelfden dage kwamen zij in de woestijn Sinai.

2 Want zij togen uit Rafidim, en kwamen in de woestijn Sinai, en zij legerden zich in de woestijn; Israel nu legerde zich aldaar tegenover dien berg.

3 En Mozes klom op tot God. En de HEERE riep tot hem van den berg, zeggende: Aldus zult gij tot het huis van Jakob spreken, en den kinderen Israels verkondigen:

4 Gijlieden hebt gezien, wat Ik den Egyptenaren gedaan heb; hoe Ik u op vleugelen der arenden gedragen en u tot Mij gebracht hebt.

5 Nu dan, indien gij naarstiglijk Mijner stem zult gehoorzamen, en Mijn verbond houden, zo zult gij Mijn eigendom zijn uit alle volken, want de ganse aarde is Mijn;