He sent His servant Moses, And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
Parallel translations
- WEB He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
- KJV He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
- BSB He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
- NKJV He sent Moses His servant, And Aaron whom He had chosen.
- NLT But the Lord sent his servant Moses, along with Aaron, whom he had chosen.
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Quick answer
God sent Moses His servant and Aaron whom He had chosen. It matters because God raised up appointed leaders to deliver His people.
Overview
To free Israel from Egypt, God called Moses and Aaron (Exodus 3-4). Both terms, 'servant' and 'chosen,' stress that their authority came from God's commission, not their own initiative. Moses as deliverer and mediator foreshadows Christ, the greater Mediator who leads His people out of bondage to sin.
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- Exod 3:10Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
- Exod 7:1Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
- Exod 28:12You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.
- Exod 28:29–38Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.
- Exod 29:5–46You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod;
- Num 16:40to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
- Exod 28:1–2“Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
- Exod 6:26–27These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Yahweh said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”
- 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.
- Josh 24:5“‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
- 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.
- Ps 77:20You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Lev 8:7–36He put the coat on him, tied the sash on him, clothed him with the robe, put the ephod on him, and he tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod on him, and fastened it to him with it.
- Acts 7:34–35I 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.’
- Num 17:5–8It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me.”
- Exod 6:11“Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.”
- Num 16:5–11He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.
- Exod 4:12–14Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”
- Num 16:47–48Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. Behold, the plague has begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
- Exod 7:12For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
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