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 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. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners. 5I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant. 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 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 6:18but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark – you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
• Genesis 15:18That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River –
• Genesis 17:7I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
• Genesis 28:4May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
• 2 Samuel 23:5My dynasty is approved by God, for he has made a perpetual covenant with me, arranged in all its particulars and secured. He always delivers me, and brings all I desire to fruition.
• Isaiah 55:3Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
• Genesis 15:13Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
• Genesis 17:8I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
• Genesis 23:4“I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”
• Genesis 26:3Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.
• Psalms 105:12When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,
• Acts 7:5He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no 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