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Today's Bible Reading :: Exodus 4 - 6 (ESV)

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Exodus 4

Moses Given Powerful Signs

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:1 - Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:2 - The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:3 - And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:4 - But the LORD said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:5 - “that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - Again, the LORD said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.”[fn] And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous[fn] like snow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:8 - “If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:9 - If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:10 - But Moses said to the LORD, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11 - Then the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:12 - Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:13 - But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:15 - You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:16 - He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:17 - And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”

Moses Returns to Egypt

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18 - Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:19 - And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:20 - So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:21 - And the LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:22 - Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD, Israel is my firstborn son,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:23 - and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:24 - At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:25 - Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’[fn] feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:26 - So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:28 - And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:29 - Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:30 - Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:31 - And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew into your bosom; also verse 7
Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
Hebrew his

Exodus 5

Making Bricks Without Straw

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:1 - Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:2 - But Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:3 - Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:4 - But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:5 - And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many,[fn] and you make them rest from their burdens!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:6 - The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:7 - “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:8 - But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:9 - Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:10 - So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:11 - Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:12 - So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:13 - The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14 - And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:15 - Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:16 - No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:17 - But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:18 - Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:19 - The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:20 - They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:21 - and they said to them, “The LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
(Exo 3:1—4:17 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:23 - For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.”
ESV Footnotes
Samaritan they are now more numerous than the people of the land

Exodus 6

God Promises Deliverance

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:1 - But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:2 - God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:3 - I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty,[fn] but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4 - I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:5 - Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:6 - Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:7 - I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:8 - I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:9 - Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:10 - So the LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:11 - “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12 - But Moses said to the LORD, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:13 - But the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron

(Gen 46:8–27 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:14 - These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:15 - The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the clans of Simeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:16 - These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being 137 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:17 - The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:18 - The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, the years of the life of Kohath being 133 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:19 - The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:20 - Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:21 - The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:22 - The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:23 - Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:24 - The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the clans of the Korahites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 - Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:26 - These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said: “Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:27 - It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:28 - On the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:29 - the LORD said to Moses, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 - But Moses said to the LORD, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?”
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