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出埃及记 5:1

摩西和亞倫首次見法老後來,摩西和亞倫去對法老說:“耶和華以色列的 神這樣說:讓我的人民離開這裡,叫他們可以在曠野向我守節。”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Moses;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;   Rebellion against God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pharaoh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Moses;   Pharaoh;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Aaron;   Jews, Judaism;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron;   Exodus;   Moses;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Pharaoh;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pha'raoh,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;   Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   Law in the Old Testament;   Moses;   Spice;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Giscala;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
後 来 摩 西 、 亚 伦 去 对 法 老 说 : 耶 和 华 ─ 以 色 列 的   神 这 样 说 : 容 我 的 百 姓 去 , 在 旷 野 向 我 守 节 。

Contextual Overview

1 After Moses and Aaron talked to the people, they went to the king of Egypt and said, "This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go so they may hold a feast for me in the desert.'" 2 But the king of Egypt said, "Who is the Lord ? Why should I obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord , and I will not let Israel go."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and told: 1 Kings 21:20, Psalms 119:46, Ezekiel 2:6, Jonah 3:3, Jonah 3:4, Matthew 10:18, Matthew 10:28, Acts 4:29

a feast: Exodus 10:9, Isaiah 25:6, 1 Corinthians 5:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:13 - thy Exodus 3:18 - and thou Exodus 6:11 - General Exodus 6:27 - spake Exodus 7:16 - serve Exodus 8:1 - Let my Exodus 8:27 - three days' Exodus 9:1 - General Exodus 12:14 - a feast Numbers 12:2 - Hath the Lord 1 Kings 18:21 - if the Lord Jeremiah 27:4 - Thus

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
This is the story of the creation of the sky and the earth. When the Lord God first made the earth and the sky,
Genesis 5:26
After Lamech was born, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:27
So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
Genesis 6:9
This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a good man, the most innocent man of his time, and he walked with God.
Genesis 10:1
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.
1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam was the father of Seth. Seth was the father of Enosh. Enosh was the father of Kenan.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
One thing I have learned: God made people good, but they have found all kinds of ways to be bad."
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember your Creator while you are young, before the days of trouble come and the years when you say, "I find no pleasure in them."
Matthew 1:1
This is the family history of Jesus Christ. He came from the family of David, and David came from the family of Abraham.
1 Corinthians 11:7
But a man should not cover his head, because he is the likeness and glory of God. But woman is man's glory.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And afterwards Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh,.... Whose name, some say, was Cenchres, others Amenophis, according to Manetho and Chaeremon h; :- went into Pharaoh's palace, and being introduced by the proper officer at court for that purpose, addressed him in the following manner:

thus saith the Lord God of Israel: as ambassadors of him, who is King of kings, and Lord of lords; and so Artapanus i, the Heathen, says that the Egyptian king, hearing that Moses was come, sent for him to know wherefore he was come, who told him, that the Lord of the world commanded him to let the Jews go, as it follows here:

let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness; in the wilderness of Sinai or Arabia, at Horeb there, where they might keep it more freely and safely, without being disturbed by the Egyptians, and without giving any offence to them; and the demand is just; they were the people of God, and therefore he claims them, and service from them was due to him; and Pharaoh had no right to detain them, and what is required was but their reasonable service they owed to their God. This feast was to be held, not for themselves, but to God, which chiefly consisted in offering sacrifice, as is after explained; the entire dismission of them is not at once demanded, only to go a little while into the wilderness, and keep a feast there to the Lord; though it was not intended they should return, but it was put in this form to try Pharaoh, and that he might be the more inexcusable in refusing to grant what was so reasonable.

h Apud Joseph. contr. Apion. l. 1. c. 26. 32. i Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 434.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Pharaoh - This king, probably Tothmosis II, the great grandson of Aahmes Exodus 1:8, the original persecutor of the Israelites, must have been resident at this time in a city, probably Tanis Exodus 2:5, of Lower Egypt, situated on the Nile.

The Lord God - Yahweh God of Israel demanded the services of His people. The demand, according to the general views of the pagans, was just and natural; the Israelites could not offer the necessary sacrifices in the presence of Egyptians.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER V

Moses and Aaron open their commission to Pharaoh, 1.

He insultingly asks who Jehovah is, in whose name they require him

to dismiss the people, 2.

They explain, 3.

He charges them with making the people disaffected, 4, 5;

and commands the task-masters to increase their work, and lessen

their means of performing it, 6-9.

The task-masters do as commanded, and refuse to give the people

straw to assist them in making brick, and yet require the fulfilment

of their daily tasks as formerly, when furnished with all the

necessary means, 10-13.

The Israelites failing to produce the ordinary quantity of brick,

their own officers, set over them by the task-masters, are cruelly

insulted and beaten, 14.

The officers complain to Pharaoh, 15, 16;

but find no redress, 17, 18.

The officers, finding their case desperate, bitterly reproach Moses

and Aaron for bringing them into their present circumstances, 19-21.

Moses retires, and lays the matter before the Lord, and pleads

with him, 22, 23.

NOTES ON CHAP. V

Verse Exodus 5:1. And afterward Moses and Aaron went — This chapter is properly a continuation of the preceding, as the succeeding is a continuation of this; and to preserve the connection of the facts they should be read together.

How simply, and yet with what authority, does Moses deliver his message to the Egyptian king! Thus saith JEHOVAH, GOD of ISRAEL, Let my people go. It is well in this, as in almost every other case where יהוה Jehovah occurs, to preserve the original word: our using the word LORD is not sufficiently expressive, and often leaves the sense indistinct.


 
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