Keluaran 4:23

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

sebab itu Aku berfirman kepadamu: Biarkanlah anak-Ku itu pergi, supaya ia beribadah kepada-Ku; tetapi jika engkau menolak membiarkannya pergi, maka Aku akan membunuh anakmu, anakmu yang sulung."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
sebab itu Aku berfirman kepadamu: Biarkanlah anak-Ku itu pergi, supaya ia beribadah kepada-Ku; tetapi jika engkau menolak membiarkannya pergi, maka Aku akan membunuh anakmu, anakmu yang sulung."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka firman-Ku kepadamu: Biarkanlah anak-Ku itu pergi, supaya ia berbuat ibadat kepada-Ku; jikalau engganlah engkau memberi akan dia pergi, bahwa sesungguhnya Aku akan membunuh anakmu laki-laki yang sulung.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Therfore Moyses went and returned to Iethro his father in law againe, and said vnto him: Let me go I pray thee nowe, and turne agayne vnto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet aliue. And Iethro said to Moyses: go in peace. ¹⁹ And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses in Madian, Go and returne agayne into Egypt: for all the men are dead whiche went about to kill thee. ²⁰ And Moyses toke his wyfe, and his sonnes, and put them on an asse, and went agayne to Egypt: And Moyses toke the rodde of God in his hande. ²¹ And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: When thou art entred and come into Egypt agayne, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharao whiche I haue put in thy hand: but I wyll hold his heart, & he shal not let the people go. ²² And thou shalt saye vnto Pharao: Thus sayeth the Lorde, Israel is my sonne [euen] my first borne sonne. ²³ And I sayde vnto thee, that thou let my sonne go, that he may serue me. And if thou refuse to let him go: beholde, I do slay thy sonne [euen] thy first borne.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 11:5, Exodus 12:29, Psalms 78:51, Psalms 105:36, Psalms 135:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:2 - the sons Exodus 7:14 - he refuseth Exodus 9:1 - General Exodus 9:2 - General Exodus 14:17 - I will Deuteronomy 14:1 - the children 2 Kings 1:16 - Forasmuch 1 Chronicles 2:42 - his firstborn Isaiah 63:8 - Surely Jeremiah 2:3 - all that Malachi 1:6 - if then

Cross-References

Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kyll.

Leviticus 19:18
Thou shalt not auenge nor wayte to do displeasure agaynst the chyldren of thy people, but shalt loue thy neighbour euen as thy selfe: I am the Lorde.

Numbers 23:18
And he toke vp his parable, and aunswered: Rise vp Balac, and heare, and hearke vnto me thou sonne of Ziphor.

Judges 9:7
And when they tolde it to Ioatham, he went and stoode in the top of mount Garizim, and lyft vp his voyce, & cryed, and sayd vnto them: Hearken vnto me you men of Sichem, that God may hearken vnto you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I say unto thee, let my son go, that he may serve me,.... Worship God according to his will in the place he had designed for him, and where he might be safe and free; and which service was due from him as a son, and to be performed not in a servile way, but in a filial manner, and therefore as a servant he could demand his dismission, and much more as his son; and this is required in an authoritative way, for saying is here commanding, insisting on it as a point of right to be done:

and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn; meaning, not only in a strict and literal sense Pharaoh's firstborn son, and heir to his crown, but the firstborn of all his subjects, which in a civil sense were his. This was not to be said to Pharaoh at the first opening of his commission to him, but after all methods had been tried, and the several other plagues designed were inflicted on him to no purpose, he was to be told this, which was the last plague, and succeeded; but this is told to Moses before hand, that when other messages he should be sent with to him, and all that should be done by him would prove ineffectual, this, when sent with and performed, would have the desired effect.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 4:23. Let my son go, that he may serve me — Which they could not do in Goshen, consistently with the policy and religious worship of the Egyptians; because the most essential part of an Israelite's worship consisted in sacrifice, and the animals which they offered to God were sacred among the Egyptians. Moses gives Pharaoh this reason Exodus 8:26.

I will slay thy son, even thy first-born. — Which, on Pharaoh's utter refusal to let the people go, was accordingly done; see Exodus 12:29.