Parallel Verses English Standard Version But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.” King James Bible And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. American Standard Version And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. Douay-Rheims Bible But he said: I beseech thee, Lord send whom thou wilt send. English Revised Version And he said, Oh Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. Webster's Bible Translation And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. Exodus 4:13 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThe Second Sign. - Moses' hand became leprous, and was afterwards cleansed again. The expression כּשּׁלג מצרעת, covered with leprosy like snow, refers to the white leprosy (vid., Leviticus 13:3). - "Was turned again as his flesh;" i.e., was restored, became healthy, or clean like the rest of his body. So far as the meaning of this sign is concerned, Moses' hand has been explained in a perfectly arbitrary manner as representing the Israelitish nation, and his bosom as representing first Egypt, and then Canaan, as the hiding-place of Israel. If the shepherd's staff represented Moses' calling, the hand was that which directed or ruled the calling. It is in the bosom that the nurse carried the sucking child (Numbers 11:12), the shepherd the lambs (Isaiah 40:11), and the sacred singer the many nations, from whom he has suffered reproach and injury (Psalm 89:50). So Moses also carried his people in his bosom, i.e., in his heart: of that his first appearance in Egypt was a proof (Exodus 2:11-12). But now he was to set his hand to deliver them from the reproach and bondage of Egypt. He put (הביא) his hand into his bosom, and his hand was covered with leprosy. The nation was like a leper, who defiled every one that touched him. The leprosy represented not only "the servitude and contemptuous treatment of the Israelites in Egypt" (Kurtz), but the ἀσέβεια of the Egyptians also, as Theodoret expresses it, or rather the impurity of Egypt in which Israel was sunken. This Moses soon discovered (cf. Exodus 5:17.), and on more than one occasion afterwards (cf. Numbers 11); so that he had to complain to Jehovah, "Wherefore hast Thou afflicted Thy servant, that Thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?...Have I conceived all this people, that Thou shouldest say to me, Carry them in thy bosom?" (Numbers 11:11-12). But God had the power to purify the nation from this leprosy, and would endow His servant Moses with that power. At the command of God, Moses put his hand, now covered with leprosy, once more into his bosom, and drew it out quite cleansed. This was what Moses was to learn by the sign; whilst Israel also learned that God both could and would deliver it, through the cleansed hand of Moses, from all its bodily and spiritual misery. The object of the first miracle was to exhibit Moses as the man whom Jehovah had called to be the leader of His people; that of the second, to show that, as the messenger of Jehovah, he was furnished with the necessary power for the execution of this calling. In this sense God says, in Exodus 4:8, "If they will not hearken to the voice of the first sign, they will believe the voice of the latter sign." A voice is ascribed to the sign, as being a clear witness to the divine mission of the person performing it. (Psalm 105:27). Treasury of Scripture Knowledge send. Jeremiah 1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name... wilt send. or shouldest. Cross References Exodus 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak." Exodus 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. Jump to Previous Ah Good Hand Message Moses Please Seems Someone Whomever WiltJump to Next Ah Good Hand Message Moses Please Seems Someone Whomever WiltLinks Exodus 4:13 NIVExodus 4:13 NLT Exodus 4:13 ESV Exodus 4:13 NASB Exodus 4:13 KJV Exodus 4:13 Bible Apps Exodus 4:13 Biblia Paralela Exodus 4:13 Chinese Bible Exodus 4:13 French Bible Exodus 4:13 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |
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