Exodus 4-6 - Let My people go

If They Will Not Believe These Signs

Exo 4:1 LSB - [1] Then Moses answered and said, "What if they will not believe me and will not listen to my voice? For they may say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"

Exo 4:9 LSB - [9] "But if it will be that they will not believe even these two signs and that they will not listen to your voice, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry land; and the water which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry land."

Aaron to Speak for Moses

Exo 4:11-12 LSB - [11] And Yahweh said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes [him] mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh? [12] "So now, go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth and will instruct you what you shall speak."

Moses Returns to Egypt

Exo 4:21 LSB - [21] And Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go to return to Egypt, see [to it] that all the miraculous wonders which I have put in your hand, that you do them before Pharaoh; but as for Me, I will harden his heart with strength so that he will not let the people go.

Exo 4:24-26 LSB - [24] Now it happened at the lodging place on the way that Yahweh encountered him and sought to put him to death. [25] Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched his feet with it, and she said, "You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me!" [26] So He let him alone. At that time she said, "[You are] a bridegroom of blood" with reference to the circumcision.

Pharaoh Will Not Let the People Go

Exo 5:1 LSB - [1] And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.'"

Go Down Moses

When Is­ra­el was in Egypt’s land,

Let My people go,

Oppressed so hard they could not stand,

Let My peo­ple go.

Refrain

Go down, Mo­ses,

Way down in Egypt’s land,

Tell old Pha­raoh,

To let My peo­ple go.

Thus saith the Lord, bold Mo­ses said,

Let My peo­ple go,

If not I’ll smite your first born dead,

Let My peo­ple go.

Refrain

No more in bond­age shall they toil,

Let My peo­ple go,

Let them come out with Egypt’s spoil,

Let My peo­ple go.

Refrain

Exo 5:23 LSB - [23] "Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all."

Yahweh Remembers His Covenant

Exo 6:1 LSB - [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 6:2-3 LSB - [2] God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am Yahweh; [3] and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but [by] My name, Yahweh, I was not known to them.

Exo 6:9 LSB - [9] So Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of [their] weakness of spirit and hard slavery.

The Heads of Israel’s Households

Exo 6:26 LSB - [26] It 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."

Aaron Will Speak for Moses

Exo 7:3 LSB - [3] "But I will harden Pharaoh's heart with stiffness that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

Exo 7:6-7 LSB - [6] So Moses and Aaron did [it]; as Yahweh commanded them, thus they did. [7] Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.