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Exodus 7:6
6Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them.
Exodus 7:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then Moses and Aaron did so; just as the Lord commanded them, so they did.
- New Living Translation (NLT)So Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded them.
Context of Exodus 7:6
4he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites. 5And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.” Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them. 7Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh. 8The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
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וַיַּ֥עַשׂ מֹשֶׁ֖ה וְאַהֲרֹ֑ן כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוָּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה אֹתָ֖ם כֵּ֥ן עָשֽׂוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Exodus 7:6
- Exodus 6:2God also said to Moses, “I am the Lord.
- Exodus 12:28The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
- Exodus 39:43Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the Lord had commanded. So Moses blessed them.
- Exodus 40:16Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded him.
- Genesis 6:22Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
- Genesis 22:18and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
- Psalms 119:4You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed.
- John 15:10If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
Commentaries on Exodus 7:6
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-7In this final scene before the rescue begins, the Lord again answered the fear that Moses had about not speaking well. God allowed Moses to speak through Aaron (see 4:16). Even so, Pharaoh would still refuse to listen. The outcome did not depend on the ability of Moses to speak. It depended on God’s power. Moses and Aaron obeyed God’s command. They acted in faith and went forward as he directed. The first crisis had now passed (see study note on 5:22–23) .Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-251. the Lord said unto Moses--He is here encouraged to wait again on the king--not, however, as formerly, in the attitude of a humble suppliant, but now armed with credentials as God's ambassador, and to make his demand in a tone and manner which no earthly monarch or court ever witnessed. I have made thee a god--"made," that is, set, appointed; "a god"; that is, he was to act in this business as God's representative, to act and speak in His name and to…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 7
- 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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