New English Translation
Exodus 6:2
2God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.
Exodus 6:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:
- New International Version (NIV)God also said to Moses, “I am the Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am the Lord.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the Lord.
Context of Exodus 6:2
1Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for compelled by my strong hand he will release them, and by my strong hand he will drive them out of his land.” God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord. 3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘the Lord’ I was not known to them. 4I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.
Read all of Exodus 6Exodus 6:2 word by word
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖יו אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Exodus 6:2
- Exodus 6:6Therefore, tell the Israelites, ‘I am the Lord. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
- Exodus 14:18And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I have gained my honor because of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
- Exodus 17:1The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the Desert of Sin according to the Lord’s instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.
- Exodus 20:2“I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
- Genesis 15:7The Lord said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
- Isaiah 42:8I am the Lord! That is my name! I will not share my glory with anyone else, or the praise due me with idols.
- Isaiah 43:11I, I am the Lord, and there is no deliverer besides me.
- Isaiah 44:6This is what the Lord, Israel’s king, says, their protector, the Lord who commands armies: “I am the first and I am the last, there is no God but me.
- Jeremiah 9:24If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the Lord, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things,” says the Lord.
- Malachi 3:6“Since, I, the Lord, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.
- Acts 17:24The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,
Commentaries on Exodus 6:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2I am the Lord - It should be, I am Jehovah, and without this the reason of what is said in the 3d verse is not sufficiently obvious.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2There appears to have been an interval of some months between the preceding events and this renewal of the promise to Moses. The oppression in the meantime was not merely driving the people to desperation, but preparing them by severe labor, varied by hasty wanderings in search of stubble, for the exertions and privations of the wilderness. Hence, the formal and solemn character of the announcements in the whole chapter. Exodus 6:2 I am the Lord - The…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3I am the LORD … God Almighty: Here, the Hebrew El-Shaddai is translated “God Almighty.” God was emphasizing that he was revealing himself in a new way. The patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) knew him especially as God Almighty. Now he was making his name Yahweh (LORD) known more fully to Moses and the Israelites. The point is not that the name Yahweh was completely unknown before. Rather, God was now showing more clearly what that name means through…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. And God spake unto Moses--For his further encouragement, there was made to him an emphatic repetition of the promise (Ex 3:20).Read the comment
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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
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