Exodus 4:6 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 4:6

Furthermore, the LORD said to Moses, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, white as snow.

BSB

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ASV

And Jehovah said furthermore unto him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

KJV

And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

On the Duties of the Clergy 3.15.95 (397)

Again, another sign which Moses gave points to our Lord Jesus Christ. He put his hand into his bosom and drew it out again, and his hand had become as snow. A second time he put it in and drew it out, and it was again like the appearance of human flesh. This signified first the original glory of the Godhead of the Lord Jesus and then the assumption of our flesh, in which truth all nations and peoples must believe.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

His hand was leprous, as snow - For whiteness. This signified, That Moses, by the power of God, should bring sore diseases upon Egypt, that at his prayer they should be removed. And that whereas the Israelites in Egypt were become leprous, polluted by sin, and almost consumed by oppression, by being taken into the bosom of Moses they should be cleansed and cured.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

His hand was leprous as snow - That is, the leprosy spread itself over the whole body in thin white scales; and from this appearance it has its Greek name λεπρα, from λεπις, a scale.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּאמֶר֩	vai.yo.Mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוָ֨ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
ל֜וֹ	lo	to <the> him
ע֗וֹד	od	again	H5750 →
הָֽבֵא־	ha.ve'-	put	H935 →
נָ֤א	na'	please	H4994 →
יָֽדְךָ֙	ya.de.Kha	hand your	H3027 →
בְּחֵיקֶ֔ךָ	be.chei.Ke.cha	in bosom your	H2436 →
וַיָּבֵ֥א	vai.ya.Ve'	and he put	H935 →
יָד֖וֹ	ya.Do	hand his	H3027 →
בְּחֵיק֑וֹ	be.chei.Ko	in bosom his	H2436 →
וַיּ֣וֹצִאָ֔הּ	vai.Yo.tzi.'Ah	and he brought out it	H3318 →
וְהִנֵּ֥ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
יָד֖וֹ	ya.Do	hand his	H3027 →
מְצֹרַ֥עַת	me.tzo.Ra.'at	[was] leprous	H6879 →
כַּשָּֽׁלֶג׃	ka.Sha.leg	like <the> snow	H7950 →

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

H2436becheikechain bosom your38×

The walk

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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
Numbers 12:10
As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,
leads to
- Deuteronomy 24:9
  Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you came out of Egypt.
- 2 Kings 5:27
  Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.
- 2 Kings 15:5
  And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 26:19–21
  Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy…
- Exodus 33:7–10
  Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting, and anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the Tent…
Through
2 Kings 5:27
Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.
leads to
- Numbers 12:10
  As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,
- 2 Samuel 3:29
  May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who…
- Joshua 7:25
  “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.