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Exodus 6:7

in Exodus 6

I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

KJV

And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

This verse in Exodus 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

I will take you to me for a people

This is the covenant formula, and it recurs at Leviticus 26:12, Jeremiah 31:33, 2 Corinthians 6:16 and Revelation 21:3, where it is the last thing said about the new city. Alfred Edersheim records the Jewish tradition that ties the four cups of the passover meal to the four verbs of promise in verses 6 and 7, bring out, rid, redeem and take. The Jerusalem Talmud states it at Pesahim 10:1, compiled around the fifth century, and it is reception history rather than something the Exodus text says.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And I will take you to me for a people,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

(1.) He intended their happiness: I will take you to me for a people, a peculiar people, and I will be to you a God; more than this we need not ask, we cannot have, to make us happy. (2.) He intended his own glory: You shall know that I am the Lord.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

I will take you to me for a people, etc. - This was precisely the covenant that he had made with Abraham. See Gen 17:7, and see Clarke’s note on Gen 17:7. And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God - By thus fulfilling my promises ye shall know what is implied in my name. See Clarke’s note on Exo 6:3. But why should God take such a most stupid, refractory, and totally worthless people for his people?

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְלָקַחְתִּ֨יand I will take

    velakachtiH3947966 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֥ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH85310935 times

  • לִי֙for <the> myself

    li

  • לְעָ֔םto a people

    leamH59711873 times

  • וְהָיִ֥יתִיand I will become

    vehayitiH19613559 times

  • לָכֶ֖םfor <the> you

    lakhem

  • לֵֽאלֹהִ֑ים<into> God

    lelohimH4302601 times

  • וִֽידַעְתֶּ֗םand you will know

    vida'temH3045945 times

  • כִּ֣יthat

    kiH35884482 times

  • אֲנִ֤יI

    ʾaniH589874 times

  • יְהוָה֙[am] Yahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔םGod your

    ʾeloheikhemH4302601 times

  • הַמּוֹצִ֣יאwho brought out

    hamotzi'H33181067 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֔ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH85310935 times

  • מִתַּ֖חַתfrom under

    mitachatH8478505 times

  • סִבְל֥וֹת[the] forced labor of

    sivlotH54506 times

  • מִצְרָֽיִם׃Egypt

    mitzrayimH4714641 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 7:6

    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 14:2

      for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 19:5–6

      Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Peter 2:9

      But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

    • Malachi 3:17

      “They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

  • Through

    Revelation 21:7

    The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 6:18

      And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

    • Hebrews 8:10

      For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And…

    • Revelation 21:3

      And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will…

    • Revelation 2:11

      He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.

Where this verse is studied

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About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.