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Exodus 3:18-22
Today we see the creator assuring Moshe (Moses) that the people will listen to his voice. He tells him what he will say and lays out all of what will happen, including the fact that Pharaoh will not cave and let the people go until God stretches out his mighty hand against them.
He is told to ask for a week or so of freedom for the Hebrews so that they may go, worship and make sacrifices to the Eternal God. Then, after several refusals to let them go, they will be freed and not only that. They will also ask for gold, jewelry, and clothing. He calls it a plunder of the Mitsraim (people of Egypt).
The Creator is convincing Moshe, over the next few posts, that He will be with him, letting him know that God himself will be with him and will complete the objective.
With that, I want to congratulate you on staying with me through yet another chapter of the Tanakh. Next week we will start our journey into the the fourth chapter of Exodus. There will be more of this conversation between God and Moshe the top of the mountain in Midian.
Today's reading
English
And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.' "But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand. So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go. And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty, but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians."
Hebrew
Next week, Moshe turns his staff into a snake...
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Bleujay
It's easy to see Egypt as the "bad guy", but I think God has a different perspective. The image of the "mighty hand" and "so I will stretch out my hand" sounds like a father chastising his son.
Joseph brought the children of Israel in to Egypt be a light and to introduce the culture of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, but Egypt as a nation did not listen.
Pharaoh had a chance to allow the sons of Israel to leave to worship God, but he rejected the idea and made the yoke even heavier.
The Father was disciplining his son Mitsraim, for mistreating his son Israel!
Someday, once all the nations are chastised, the Almighty Father will bless His children:
The Father also refers to Israel and his wive, mostly in the Nebi'yim (the Prophets). Those books are filled with chastisements and warnings of punishment. In my personal studies, I am in Ezekiel at chapter 23. That chapter speaks of Samaria and Jerusalem as whores and specifies their actions very graphically, something like one might find in Tiajuana, Mexico. It contains vocabulary I did not need to know in Hebrew!