Exodus 13:5 - Exposition

The land of the Canaanites , etc. Compare Exodus 3:8 , Exodus 3:17 . The six nations of these passages are reduced here to five by the omission of the Perizzites, one of the less important tribes. Which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee . See Genesis 15:18 ; Genesis 24:7 ; and compare the comment on Exodus 6:8 . That thou shalt keep this service . This injunction had been already given ( Exodus 12:25 ) almost in the same words; but on the former occasion it was delivered to the elders only; now it is laid upon the whole people.