Exodus 4:29 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 4:29

Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites,

BSB

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ASV

And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:

KJV

And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

All the elders - The Israelites retained their own national organization; their affairs were administered by their own elders, who called a public assembly Exo 4:31 to hear the message brought by Moses and Aaron.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ	vai.Ye.lekh	and he went	H1980 →
מֹשֶׁ֖ה	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
וְאַהֲרֹ֑ן	ve.'a.ha.Ron	and Aaron	H175 →
וַיַּ֣אַסְפ֔וּ	vai.Ya.'as.Fu	and they gathered	H622 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
זִקְנֵ֖י	zik.Nei	[the] elders of	H2205 →
בְּנֵ֥י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

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Where the connections lead

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 3:16
Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you…
leads to
- Psalms 8:4
  what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
- 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.
- Genesis 50:24
  Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…
- Acts 15:14
  Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
Through
Exodus 24:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.
leads to
- Numbers 11:16
  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them…
- Exodus 6:23
  And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Through
Exodus 24:11
But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.
leads to
- Luke 15:23–24
  Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.
- Exodus 18:12
  Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.

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06About Exodus

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Exodus