Exodus 3:10
So you go back to Egypt. I am sending you to the king, in order that he may permit you to bring my people, the Israeli people, out of Egypt.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
9Truly I have now heard my Israeli people crying [PRS]. I have seen how the Egyptians oppress them.
Cross References
Judges 6:14Then Yahweh turned toward him and said, “I will give you strength to enable you to rescue the Israelis from the people of Midian. I am sending you to do that!”
Psalms 77:20You led your people like a shepherd leads his flock of sheep, while Moses and Aaron were the leaders of your people.
Psalms 105:26But then Yahweh sent his servant Moses along with Moses’ older brother Aaron, whom Yahweh had also chosen to be his servant.
Hosea 12:13Many years later, Yahweh enabled a prophet to bring the ancestors of you people of Israel here from Egypt; that prophet, Moses, took care of them.
Acts 7:34I have surely seen how the people of Egypt are continually causing my people to suffer. I have heard my people when they groan because those people continually oppress them. So I have come down to rescue them from Egypt. Now get ready, because I am going to send you back to Egypt to do that.’”
Matthew Henry on Exodus 3:8-11
Compassion of God for the Israelites. ( b. c. 1491.) 7 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the… Read the whole commentary →