Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites 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 out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
- Isa 63:11–12Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
- 1 Sam 12:6Samuel said to the people, “It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that 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 surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’
- Ps 77:20You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Hos 12:13By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
- Acts 7:36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
- Ps 103:6–7Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are 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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