Exodus 6
Introduction
Verses 1–9
Here, I. God silences Moses’s complaints with the assurance of success in this negotiation, repeating the promise made him in Ex. 3:20, After that, he will let you go.
Verses 10–13
Here, I. God sends Moses the second time to Pharaoh upon the same errand as before, to command him, at his peril, that he let the children of Israel go. Note, God repeats his precepts before he begins his punishments.
Verses 14–30
I. We have here a genealogy, not an endless one, such as the apostle condemns , for it ends in those two great patriots Moses and Aaron, and comes in here to show that they were Israelites, bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh whom they were sent to deliver, raised up unto them of their…
Much ado there was to bring Moses to his work, and when the ice was broken, some difficulty having occurred in carrying it on, there was no less ado to put him forward in it. Witness this chapter, in which, I.