Exodus 6:4

Exodus 6:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
• New International Version (NIV)I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.

Context of Exodus 6:4

2God spoke to Moses, “I am the Lord. 3I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I didn’t make myself known to them by my name, the Lord. I even made a promise to give them Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners. 5Now I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians hold in slavery, and I have remembered my promise. 6“Tell the Israelites, ‘I am the Lord. I will bring you out from under the oppression of the Egyptians, and I will free you from slavery. I will rescue you with my powerful arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

Exodus 6:4 word by word

וְגַ֨ם הֲקִמֹ֤תִי אֶת־בְּרִיתִי֙ אִתָּ֔ם לָתֵ֥ת לָהֶ֖ם אֶת־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן אֵ֛ת אֶ֥רֶץ מְגֻרֵיהֶ֖ם אֲשֶׁר־גָּ֥רוּ בָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And I have also establishedקוּםqûm · to arise: establishH6965
• my covenantבְּרִיתberîyth · covenantH1285
• with them, to giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• them the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• of Canaanכְּנַ֫עַןkena‛an · CanaanH3667
• of their pilgrimageמָגוֹרmâgûr mâgûr · sojourningH4033
• wherein they were strangersגּוּרgûr · to sojournH1481

Cross-references for Exodus 6:4

• Genesis 6:18“But I will make my promise to you. You, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives will go into the ship.
• Genesis 15:18At that time the Lord made a promise to Abram. He said, “I will give this land to your descendants. This is the land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.
• Genesis 17:7I will make my promise to you and your descendants for generations to come as an everlasting promise. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.
• Genesis 28:4May he give to you and your descendants the blessing of Abraham so that you may take possession of the land where you are now living, the land that God gave to Abraham.”
• 2 Samuel 23:5“Truly, God considers my house to be that way, because he has made a lasting promise to me, with every detail arranged and assured. ⌞He promised⌟ everything that helps me, everything that pleases me. Truly, he makes these things happen.
• Isaiah 55:3Open your ears, and come to me! Listen so that you may live! I will make an everlasting promise to you— the blessings I promised to David.
• Genesis 15:13God said to Abram, “You can know for sure that your descendants will live in a land that is not their own, where they will be slaves, and they will be oppressed for 400 years.
• Genesis 17:8I am also giving this land where you are living—all of Canaan—to you and your descendants as your permanent possession. And I will be your God.”
• Genesis 23:4“I’m a stranger with no permanent home. Let me have some of your property for a tomb so that I can bury my dead wife.”
• Genesis 26:3Live here in this land for a while, and I will be with you and bless you. I will give all these lands to you and your descendants. I will keep the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
• Psalms 105:12While the people of Israel were few in number, a small group of foreigners living in that land,
• Acts 7:5“Yet, God didn’t give Abraham anything in this land to call his own, not even a place to rest his feet. But God promised to give this land to him and to his descendants, even though Abraham didn’t have a child.

Commentaries on Exodus 6:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4I have also established my covenant - I have now fully purposed to give present effect to all my engagements with your fathers, in behalf of their posterity.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-8Once again, God clearly connected his present action with the promises he made to the patriarchs (Abraham and his family). God works in history in ways that show his faithfulness. He makes promises, and he keeps them. God also planned to reveal more about himself than he had revealed to the patriarchs. This new generation would understand more about who he is and what he intends to do. They would especially learn more about the meaning and demands of the…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-131. the Lord said unto Moses--The Lord, who is long-suffering and indulgent to the errors and infirmities of His people, made allowance for the mortification of Moses as the result of this first interview and cheered him with the assurance of a speedy and successful termination to his embassy.Read the comment

Topics related to Exodus 6:4

• Covenant
• God
• Moses

In the dictionaries

• Canaan
• Canaan; Canaanites
• Canaan, Canaanite
• Anguish
• Groaning
• Rid
• Exodus, the Book of
• Genealogy
• Genesis
• God

Commentaries on Exodus 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings