Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Exodus 3:10

Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

KJV

Sed veni, et mittam te ad Pharaonem, ut educas populum meum, filios Israël, de Ægypto.

Vulgate

καὶ νῦν δεῦρο ἀποστείλω σε πρὸς Φαραὼ βασιλέα Αἰγύπτου, καὶ ἐξάξεις τὸν λαόν μου τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου.

LXX

Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

ASV

וְ/עַתָּ֣ה לְכָ֔/ה וְ/אֶֽשְׁלָחֲ/ךָ֖ אֶל פַּרְעֹ֑ה וְ/הוֹצֵ֛א אֶת עַמִּ֥/י בְנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מִ/מִּצְרָֽיִם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
יֵּ֥לֶךְ
ylk
verb · 1038×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
מִצְרַ֔יִם
mtsrym
proper_noun · 634×
נִי
ny
verb · 838×
עַתָּ֗ה
'th
adverb · 433×
פַּרְעֹ֔ה
pr'h
proper_noun · 267×

Typology

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1867The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel,139 The sin of the Sodomites,140 The cry of the people oppressed in Egypt,141 The cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan,142 injustice to the wage earner.143
§2575Here again the initiative is God's. From the midst of the burning bush he calls Moses.20 This event will remain one of the primordial images of prayer in the spiritual tradition of Jews and Christians alike. When "the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob" calls Moses to be his servant, it is because he is the living God who wants men to live. God reveals himself in order to s…
Philo presents Moses as the ideal philosopher-king, surpassing all Greek models. Moses was called by God to lead not through force but through virtue. He is the lawgiver par excellence because his laws derive not from human reason alone but from direct divine revelation, making the Torah the constitution of the universe itself.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 12:6 — And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Acts 7:34 — I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
  • Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
  • Deut 4:34 — Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great t
  • Exod 6:26 — These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.
  • Exod 33:12 — And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also fou
  • Hos 12:13 — And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
  • Isa 63:11 — Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
  • Josh 24:5 — I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
  • Mic 6:4 — For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
  • Ps 77:20 — Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
  • Ps 103:6 — The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
  • Ps 105:26 — He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
  • Ps 105:26 — He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.