Exodus - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 56

5·——2 EXODUS.

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IO I I 16 mvmcz Gon of Israel; ‘ Send out My Pe0p!e that they may hold a festival to Mc in the desert} Who is the

E—v1=;R-uvmc: that I should listen to His voice, to send out the Israelites? I know notliing of the livm<—uv1Nq:.; and I shall not send the Israelites out! 'I` he GOD

of the Hebrews has summoned us. Let us go therefore three dg1ys’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice to our EvER·1.1v1NG GOD, for fear He should assail us with plague or fever] The King of the Mitzeraim said to

Why do you, Moses and Aaron, break off the people from their work? Go yourselves to the Pharoh went on the people are now too many for the land, yet you would take them away from building ! Pharoh consequently commanded,

on that day, to the drivers and over- You shall not con— tinue to give straw to these people for the bricks they make, as hereto- fore; but let them go and collect straw for themselves. Yet the num- ber of the bricks which they had to make heretofore, lay upon them ; you shall not diminish from them, for they are idle, therefore they cry out saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our GoD.’ Increase the work upon these men, and make them do it, and not listen to absurd speeches} The drivers and overseers of the

people consequently went and re— ported it to the people, saying thus; ‘ Pharoh has ordered us no more to give you straw, 'l`herefore go, col- lect straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, for there is to be no diminution of your labours whatever} So the people were scattered all over

the land of the Mitzeraim to seek stubble instead of straw. Yet the Com- plete your appointed work day by day in the production of bricksf And the overseers who were set over the children of Israel were flogged by the drivers of Pharoh, who de- Why have you not com· pleted the stipulated number of bricks as formerly was done, before this Then the overseers of the children

of Israel appealed to Pharoh, asking; ‘\Vhy have you done this to your slaves? No straw is given to your slaves, yet they say to us, ‘ Make the bricks} and your slaves are beaten, and your people injured. You are

idle! you are idle! Therefore you say, ‘ Let us go and sacrifice to the EveR—uv1No.’ So now be off, you slaves, for straw shall not be given to you, but you shall make the number of your bricks! Consequently the overseers of the

children, of Israel saw they were in a. You shall not clixninish from the number of so they assailed Moses and Aaron for inciting them to go to present themselves to Pharoh, May the EVER- mviuc; look upon you, and decide how you have made our breath stink in the opinion of Pharoh, and in the opinion of his ministers, and have put a sword into their hands to slay ns l ’ Then Moses turned to the EVER-

ALMIGHTY! why have You caused suffering to this People, and why have You sent me thus? And why have You sent me to Pharoh saying *1 willtake this People from their suffering? when You have not delivered them 18 20 2I 22 Then the Evan-Liviuo replied to 6 Now you shall see what I will do to Pharoh, so that_with a strong hand he shall send off, and with a strong hand he shall drive them from this country. Qlppruprintiuu uf the Qlnmz Qzlinlmly in ®¤h. Afterwards the Even-LIVING spoke

I am THE Evan-Livmo. And I appeared to Abraham, and to Isaac, and to jacob; as GOD ALMMSHTY; and by My name of the Evan-1.1vmo 1 I did not make Myself known to them; but however I made a covenant with them to give to them the land of Canan, the land of their foreign- hood, when they were foreigners in it. I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel who arc exxslaved by the Mitzeritcs, and I have remembered My covenant; See on this name ofthe

Almight Prof. Lee’s Hebrew Lexicon, voc. }'T’]f'P, ¥€hOV21h, where it is shown to indicate Christ, as the Mzmifcstzttiou OfGOl) Who s oke with the Pzttrlcxrchs, Moses, amd the Prophets, and that it whs first used us at Divine name, to l\-loses at the bush. See also my note On ch. iv. v. 24.·-—·F.