And it came to pass on the day when the Lord spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt. This verse depends upon the following for the sense of it, which shows what it was the Lord said to Moses in the day he spake to him in Egypt, when he was come thither, which is as follows: read more
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I am the Lord ,.... See Exodus 6:2 , speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee ; that he let Israel go; and that in case of refusal, that he would punish him and his people with this and the other plague, one after another, and at last slay him and their firstborn. read more
And Moses said before the Lord, behold, I am of uncircumcised lips ,.... As he had done, Exodus 6:13 , and this is only a repetition of what is there said, in order to lead on to what is related in the following chapter: how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me ? so mean a person, and so poor a speaker, and he a mighty king, surrounded with wise counsellors and eloquent orators. read more
And it came to pass - Here the seventh chapter should commence, as there is a complete ending of the sixth with Exodus 6:27 , and the Exodus 6:30 ; of this chapter is intimately connected with the 1st verse of the succeeding. The principal subjects in this chapter have been so amply considered in the notes, that little of importance remains to be done. On the nature of a covenant (See Clarke's note on Exodus 6:4 ;). ample information may be obtained by referring to Genesis 6:18 ,... read more
Shaken faith, and an unshaken purpose. In these verses we have— I. A PAINFUL RESULT OF AFFLICTIVE PROVIDENCE . The children of Israel, hard-driven by their taskmasters, and sunk in misery, were so stupefied with sorrow, as to have no longer any heart for their cheering tidings brought to them by Moses. Their despair had its ground in unbelief. They judged Moses a deceiver. They had trusted him before, and they reflected that the only outcome of it had been this... read more
The remainder of this chapter is scarcely more than a recapitulation. The author, or compiler, having interposed his genealogical section, has to take up the narrative from Exodus 6:12 , where he broke off, and does so by almost repeating the words of Exodus 6:10-12 . The only important addition is the insertion of the words—" I am the Lord" ( Exodus 6:29 ), and the only important variation, the substitution of "Speak thou unto Pharaoh all that I say unto thee ' (ibid.),... read more
I am the Lord. It is not improbable that every revelation made to Moses was authenticated by these initial words—which have the force of that initial phrase, so constant in the later prophets—"Thus saith the Lord." read more
All that I say unto thee . To the general command thus expressed, was probably appended the particular injunction of Exodus 6:11 , not here repeated—Speak thou unto Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land." The sacred historians continually abbreviate read more
This and the following verses belong to the next chapter. They mark distinctly the beginning of a subdivision of the narrative. read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 6:14-30
I. We have here a genealogy, not an endless one, such as the apostle condemns (1 Tim. 1:4), for it ends in those two great patriots Moses and Aaron, and comes in here to show that they were Israelites, bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh whom they were sent to deliver, raised up unto them of their brethren, as Christ also should be, who was to be the prophet and priest, the Redeemer and lawgiver, of the people of Israel, and whose genealogy also, like this, was to be carefully... read more