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Exodus 6 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Yahweh Remembers His Covenant

Exo 6:1

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand he will let them go, and by a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

Exo 6:2

God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am Yahweh;

Exo 6:3and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as [fn]God Almighty, but by My name, Yahweh, I was not known to them.
Exo 6:4“And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the [fn]land in which they sojourned.
Exo 6:5“Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel because the Egyptians are holding them in slavery, and I have remembered My covenant.
Exo 6:6“Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the hard labors of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their slavery. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
Exo 6:7‘Then I will take you [fn]for My people, and I will be [fn]your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the hard labors of the Egyptians.
Exo 6:8‘And I will bring you to the land which I [fn]swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am Yahweh.’”
Exo 6:9So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their weakness of spirit and [fn]hard slavery.
Exo 6:10

Now Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Exo 6:11“Come, [fn]tell Pharaoh king of Egypt [fn]to let the sons of Israel go out of his land.”
Exo 6:12But Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?”
Exo 6:13Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron and gave them a command for the sons of Israel and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

The Heads of Israel’s Households

Exo 6:14

These are the heads of their fathers’ households.

The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn:

Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

Exo 6:15

The sons of Simeon:

Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.

Exo 6:16

These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations:

Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the years of Levi’s life were 137 years.

Exo 6:17

The sons of Gershon:

[fn]Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

Exo 6:18

The sons of Kohath:

Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the years of Kohath’s life were 133 years.

Exo 6:19

The sons of Merari:

Mahli and Mushi.

These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

Exo 6:20

And Amram took his father’s sister Jochebed as a wife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the years of Amram’s life were 137 years.

Exo 6:21

The sons of Izhar:

Korah and Nepheg and Zichri.

Exo 6:22

The sons of Uzziel:

Mishael and [fn]Elzaphan and Sithri.

Exo 6:23

And Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as a wife, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Exo 6:24

The sons of Korah:

Assir and Elkanah and [fn]Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

Exo 6:25

And Aaron’s son Eleazar took one of the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites according to their families.

Exo 6:26It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, “Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.”
Exo 6:27They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt; it was the same Moses and Aaron.

Aaron Will Speak for Moses

Exo 6:28

Now it happened on the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

Exo 6:29that Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “I am Yahweh; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am speaking to you.”
Exo 6:30But Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?”
LSB Footnotes
Heb El Shaddai
Lit land of their sojournings in which...
Lit to Me for a people
Lit to you for a God
Lit lifted up My hand
Lit stiff
Lit speak to
Lit that he let
In 1 Chr 23:7, Ladan
In Num 3:30, Elizaphan
In 1 Chr 6:23 and 9:19, Ebiasaph
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