Exodus 6:9
Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.
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Referenced Verses
- Exod 5:21 : 21 and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”
- Exod 14:12 : 12 Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”
- Num 21:4 : 4 Fiery Serpents Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.
- Job 21:4 : 4 Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
- Prov 14:19 : 19 Bad people have bowed before good people, and wicked people have bowed at the gates of someone righteous.
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- Exod 6:10-134 verses85%
10Then the LORD said to Moses,
11“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”
12But Moses replied to the LORD,“If the Israelites did not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with difficulty?”
13The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
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6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
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6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?
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5I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
- Exod 1:12-143 verses76%
12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,
13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.
14They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.
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39When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.
- Exod 14:10-123 verses76%
10When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD,
11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”
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16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.
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12But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted to Moses.
- Exod 5:15-162 verses75%
15The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?
16No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”
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35So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the LORD had predicted through Moses.
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23The Call of the Deliverer During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.
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15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
- Exod 17:3-42 verses74%
3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”
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12This happened because they did not obey the LORD their God and broke his covenant with them. They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the LORD’s servant, had commanded.
- Num 11:10-112 verses74%
10Moses’ Complaint to the Lord Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.
11And Moses said to the LORD,“Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?
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1The Source of Sufficiency Moses answered again,“And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say,‘The LORD has not appeared to you’?”
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13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–
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25They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the LORD.
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9Then the LORD said to Moses:“I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!
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15The LORD said to Moses,“Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.
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28The Authentication of the Word When the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
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10So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.
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39Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,
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2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
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2And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them,“If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had perished in this wilderness!
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11The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?
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9And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.
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32They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,
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22The Assurance of Deliverance Moses returned to the LORD, and said,“Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?
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41But Moses said,“Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!
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4The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”