Exodus 13:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SANCTIFY UNTO ME ALL THE FIRSTBORN, WHATSOEVER OPENETH THE WOMB AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BOTH OF MAN AND OF BEAST: IT IS MINE._ Sanctity unto me all the first-born. To sanctify means to consecrate, to set apart from a common to a sacred use. The foundation of this duty rested on the fact, tha... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, REMEMBER THIS DAY, IN WHICH YE CAME OUT FROM EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE; FOR BY STRENGTH OF HAND THE LORD BROUGHT YOU OUT FROM THIS PLACE: THERE SHALL NO LEAVENED BREAD BE EATEN._ Moses said ... Remember this day ... The day that gave them a national existen... [ Continue Reading ]
_THIS DAY CAME YE OUT IN THE MONTH ABIB._ Month Abib - literally, a green ear, and hence, the month Abib is the month of green ears, corresponding to the middle of our March. It was the best season for undertaking a journey to the desert region of Sinai, especially with flocks and herds: for then t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT SHALL BE WHEN THE LORD SHALL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND OF THE CANAANITES, AND THE HITTITES, AND THE AMORITES, AND THE HIVITES, AND THE JEBUSITES, WHICH HE SWARE UNTO THY FATHERS TO GIVE THEE, A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY, THAT THOU SHALT KEEP THIS SERVICE IN THIS MONTH._ When the Lord... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT SHEW THY SON IN THAT DAY, SAYING, THIS IS DONE BECAUSE OF THAT WHICH THE LORD DID UNTO ME WHEN I CAME FORTH OUT OF EGYPT._ Thou shalt show thy son. The establishment of this and the other sacred festivals presented the best opportunities of instructing the young in a knowledge of Hi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT SHALL BE FOR A SIGN UNTO THEE UPON THINE HAND, AND FOR A MEMORIAL BETWEEN THINE EYES, THAT THE LORD'S LAW MAY BE IN THY MOUTH: FOR WITH A STRONG HAND HATH THE LORD BROUGHT THEE OUT OF EGYPT._ IT SHALL BE FOR A SIGN UNTO THEE UPON THINE HAND, AND FOR A MEMORIAL BETWEEN THINE EYES. These words... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT THEREFORE KEEP THIS ORDINANCE IN HIS SEASON FROM YEAR TO YEAR._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND EVERY FIRSTLING OF AN ASS THOU SHALT REDEEM WITH A LAMB; AND IF THOU WILT NOT REDEEM IT, THEN THOU SHALT BREAK HIS NECK: AND ALL THE FIRSTBORN OF MAN AMONG THY CHILDREN SHALT THOU REDEEM._ Every firstling ... The injunction respecting the consecration of the first-born is here repeated with so... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT SHALL BE WHEN THY SON ASKETH THEE IN TIME TO COME, SAYING, WHAT IS THIS? THAT THOU SHALT SAY UNTO HIM, BY STRENGTH OF HAND THE LORD BROUGHT US OUT FROM EGYPT, FROM THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN PHARAOH HAD LET THE PEOPLE GO, THAT GOD LED THEM NOT THROUGH THE WAY OF THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES, ALTHOUGH THAT WAS NEAR; FOR GOD SAID, LEST PERADVENTURE THE PEOPLE REPENT WHEN THEY SEE WAR, AND THEY RETURN TO EGYPT:_ God led them ... The shortest and most direct route... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT GOD LED THE PEOPLE ABOUT, THROUGH THE WAY OF THE WILDERNESS OF THE RED SEA: AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT UP HARNESSED OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT._ Led the people about ... This wondrous expanse of water is a gulf of the Indian Ocean. It was called in Hebrew х_ YAM_ (H3220) _ CUWP_ (H5488)] 't... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES TOOK THE BONES OF JOSEPH WITH HIM: FOR HE HAD STRAITLY SWORN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, GOD WILL SURELY VISIT YOU; AND YE SHALL CARRY UP MY BONES AWAY HENCE WITH YOU._ Took the bones of Joseph - in fulfillment of the oath he exacted from his brethren (Genesis 50:25). The remains of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TOOK THEIR JOURNEY FROM SUCCOTH, AND ENCAMPED IN ETHAM, IN THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS._ They took their journey from Succoth - (see the notes at Exodus 12:37; also at Leviticus 23:43; Numbers 33:5). AND ENCAMPED IN ETHAM, IN THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS - [Septuagint, Othoom para teen eree... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD WENT BEFORE THEM BY DAY IN A PILLAR OF A CLOUD, TO LEAD THEM THE WAY; AND BY NIGHT IN A PILLAR OF FIRE, TO GIVE THEM LIGHT; TO GO BY DAY AND NIGHT:_ The Lord went before them - by a visible token of his presence, the Shechinah, in a majestic cloud (Psalms 78:14; Nehemiah 9:12; 1 Corin... [ Continue Reading ]