Exodus 4:1 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּ֤עַן	vai.Ya.'an	and he answered	H6030 →
מֹשֶׁה֙	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
וַיֹּ֔אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
וְהֵן֙	ve.Hen	and here!	H2005 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יַאֲמִ֣ינוּ	ya.'a.Mi.nu	they will believe	H539 →
לִ֔י	Li	<to> <the> me
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יִשְׁמְע֖וּ	yish.me.'U	they will listen	H8085 →
בְּקֹלִ֑י	be.ko.Li	to voice my	H6963 →
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
יֹֽאמְר֔וּ	yo.me.Ru	they will say	H559 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
נִרְאָ֥ה	nir.'Ah	he appeared	H7200 →
אֵלֶ֖יךָ	'e.Lei.kha	to you	H413 →
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 3:18
The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with…
leads to
- Exodus 9:1
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
- Exodus 7:16
  Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not…
Through
Exodus 2:14
But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done…
leads to
- Luke 12:14
  But Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed Me judge or executor between you?”
- Matthew 21:23
  When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And…
Through
Ezekiel 3:14
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.
leads to
- 2 Kings 3:15
  But now, bring me a harpist.” And while the harpist played, the hand of the LORD came upon Elisha
- Jeremiah 20:7–9
  You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
- Ezekiel 37:1
  The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
Through
Exodus 4:31
and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
leads to
- Exodus 3:18
  The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with…

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Exodus 4:10“Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”Exodus 3:18The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’Exodus 4:13But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”Exodus 4:31and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.Acts 7:25He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.Ezekiel 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.Exodus 2:14But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”Jeremiah 1:6“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”Exodus 6:30But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”Exodus 4:5“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”Genesis 18:1Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.

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