Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
- KJV Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
- NKJV Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
- NASB And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”
- NLT Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”
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Quick answer
God commissions Moses to go to Pharaoh and bring Israel out of Egypt. The deliverer is now formally sent.
Overview
God will accomplish the rescue, yet He chooses to work through a human agent. Moses is sent as God's representative to confront the world's mightiest king. This sending of a mediator to deliver God's people points forward to the Father sending the Son to accomplish the greater exodus from sin.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Mic 6:4For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.
- Isa 63:11–12Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
- 1 Sam 12:6Then Samuel said to the people, “The LORD is the One who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
- Ps 105:26He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
- Acts 7:34I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
- Ps 77:20You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Hos 12:13But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
- Acts 7:36He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
- Ps 103:6–7The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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