So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin, lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’ Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
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So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the way which Yahweh had commanded you. I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also. Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain. At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to wrath. When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice. You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you. So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin, lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’ Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
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So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,
lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
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Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
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So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
And I prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'O Lord GOD, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness, that Thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Remember Thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin;
lest the land whence Thou broughtest us out say: Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He promised unto them, and because He hated them, He hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Yet they are Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou didst bring out by Thy great power and by Thy outstretched arm.'
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- Nehemiah 1:10 (vv26, 29) “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
- Deuteronomy 9:18 (v25) I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which…
- 1 Kings 8:51 (vv26, 29) (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
- Deuteronomy 4:34 (v29) Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand,…
- Deuteronomy 9:26 (v29) I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness,…
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- Jeremiah 14:21 (vv26–27) Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
- Exodus 32:11-13 (v26) Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of…
- Numbers 14:16 (v28) ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
- Deuteronomy 4:20 (v29) But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
- Deuteronomy 9:16 (v25) I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned away from the…
- Psalms 95:7 (v29) for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
- Micah 7:18-19 (v27) Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger…
- Titus 2:14 (v26) who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for…
- Isaiah 63:19 (vv26, 29) We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
- Exodus 15:13 (v26) “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Exodus 32:12 (v28) Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface…
- Psalms 100:3 (v29) Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Psalms 107:2 (v26) Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
- Revelation 5:9 (v26) They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your…
- Exodus 3:6 (v27) Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he…
- Exodus 3:16 (v27) Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,…
- Exodus 6:3-8 (v27) I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them. I have also established my…
- Exodus 13:5 (v27) It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,…
- Exodus 32:13 (v27) Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring…
- Exodus 32:31-32 (v27) Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold. Yet now, if you will,…
- Exodus 34:9 (v26) He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon…
- Numbers 14:13-19 (v26) Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them. They will tell it to…
- Deuteronomy 7:8 (v26) but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a…
- Deuteronomy 9:29 (v26) Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
- Deuteronomy 13:5 (v26) That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you…
- Deuteronomy 15:15 (v26) You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
- Deuteronomy 21:8 (v26) Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be…
- Deuteronomy 26:7-8 (v26) Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. Yahweh…
- Deuteronomy 32:9 (v26) For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
- 1 Samuel 25:25 (v27) Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with…
- 2 Samuel 7:23 (v26) What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a…
- 1 Kings 8:15 (v29) He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
- Psalms 74:1-2 (v26) God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? Remember your congregation, which you…
- Psalms 77:15 (v26) You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
- Psalms 78:8 (v27) and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was…
- Psalms 99:6 (v26) Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who call on his name. They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
- Psalms 106:23 (v26) Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he…
- Proverbs 21:12 (v27) The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.
- Isaiah 43:24-25 (v27) You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your…
- Isaiah 44:23 (v26) Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of…
- Jeremiah 50:20 (v27) In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah,…
- Micah 6:4 (v26) For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
- Hebrews 9:12 (v26) nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv25, 27 Whereby is signified that God requireth earnest continuance in…
Whereby is signified that God requireth earnest continuance in prayer.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv25, 26, 29 Deu 9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD…
Deu 9:25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Ver. 25. Thus I fell down.] The three former verses come in by a parenthesis. Here he returns again to the history of his interceding for them the second time.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv25, 26, 27, 29 Forty days and forty nights; the same mentioned before,…
Forty days and forty nights; the same mentioned before, Deu 9:18, as appears,
1. By comparing this with Exodus, where this history is more fully related, and where this is said to be done twice only.
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2. By the occasion and matter of Moses’s prayer here following, which is the same with the former.
3. By the words here following,
as I fell down at first, which show that this was the second time of his so doing.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv25–27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,.... The covenant…
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,.... The covenant he had made with them, the promises he had made to them of the multiplication of their seed, and of giving the land of Canaan to them; which is a third argument used with the Lord not to destroy them:
look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin; nor to the natural temper and disposition of the people, which was to be stubborn, obstinate, stiffnecked, and self-willed; nor to their wickedness, which appears in various instances; nor to that particular sin of idolatry they had now been guilty, of; tacitly owning that if God looked to these things, there was sufficient reason to destroy them.
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I fell down forty days - The same as were mentioned before, ver. 18, as appears by comparing this with Exodus, where this history is more fully related, and where this is said to be done twice only.
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Verse 27. Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob] As if he had said: "These are their descendants, and the covenant was made with those patriarchs in behalf of these." God bestows many blessings on comparatively worthless persons, either for the sake of their pious ancestors, or on account of the religious people with whom they are connected; therefore union with the Church of God is a blessing of no common magnitude. The reader will find the grand subject of this chapter explained at large in the notes on Exod. xxxi. and xxxii., to which he is particularly desired to refer.
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Deu 9:25. I fell down — In a way of humiliation and supplication, on your behalf. Forty days — The same forty that were mentioned Deu 9:18, as appears by comparing this with the account given in Exodus, where this history is more fully related, and where this is related to have been done twice only. See Exo 32:10; Exo 33:5.
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Nights. See ver. 18. (Calmet) --- After specifying various seditions of the people, Moses returns to what he had been saying respecting the tables of the law, and shews with what difficulty he obtained pardon for the people, and the second tables. (Haydock) --- Some people believe that Moses was thrice 40 days in the mountain. He mentions the prayer which he addressed to God before his first descent, Exodus xxxii. 11. (Menochius)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v25 Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days…
Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first--After the enumeration of various acts of rebellion, he had mentioned the outbreak at Kadesh-barnea, which, on a superficial reading of this verse, would seem to have led Moses to a third and protracted season of humiliation. But on a comparison of this passage with Num 14:5, the subject and language of this prayer show that only the second act of intercession (Deu 9:18) is now described in fuller detail.
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25-29. Remember thy servants — After the above enumeration of the principal occasions when the people awakened the anger of Jehovah, Moses returns to the apostasy at Horeb. He repeats the substance of his intercession with Jehovah, as given in Exo_32:11-13.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv25–26 25. So I fell down, etc.] Having recounted in…
25. So I fell down, etc.] Having recounted in Deu_9:22-24 the accumulated burdens of the people’s sins (there is therefore no need to doubt the originality of these verses, as Steuernagel does) under which he fell down, the speaker returns to the fact of his falling; and in—
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv25, 26, 27, 29 (25) Thus I fell down . . .—Literally, And…
(25) Thus I fell down . . .—Literally, And I fell down before Jehovah forty days and forty nights, as 1 had fallen down (originally on the fortieth day) when the Lord said He would destroy you: i.e., when He told Moses of the calf.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv25, 26, 28 Ver. 25-29. Having enumerated these instances of the rebelliousness…
Ver. 25-29. Having enumerated these instances of the rebelliousness of the people, Moses reverts to the apostasy at Sinai, in order still more to impress on the minds of the people the conviction that not for any righteousness or merit of theirs, but solely of his own grace, was God fulfilling to them his covenant with their fathers.
Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; rather, the forty days and forty nights in which I fell down. The reference is to the intercession before Moses came down from the mount, described in Exo_32:11-13. (For the form of the expression, cf. Deu_1:46)
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On vv26, 29 Deu_9:26; Deu_9:29
Deu_9:26; Deu_9:29
I prayed therefore unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not Thy people.
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A covenant people
This prayer brings out in its greatest strength a contrast which goes through the Book of Deuteronomy, and through the whole Bible. The Israelites are the people of God, His inheritance, redeemed by His mighty hand. They are stubborn, stiff-necked, wicked. One all-important contrast suggests itself the moment we open the Scriptures. They do not set forth the history of man seeking for God, but of God seeking for men. In the Book of Exodus we have very distinct records of the life of Moses, but no one could possibly think that it was the object of that book to give us a biography of him or of any other man. Moses is called out by God to know His name and to do His work; that is the account which he gives of himself. This was his holiness; he was separated, set apart by God to act as His minister. He who set him apart revealed to him His character--showed him that righteousness, and not self-will, was governing the universe. To separate Moses the righteous man from Moses the deliverer of the Israelites is impossible. He could not have been righteous if he had not fulfilled that task, he could not have been righteous if he had not testified in all his acts and words that God, not he, was the deliverer. We miss the whole meaning of the story--the saintship of Moses disappears altogether--if we try to conceive of him apart from his people. It was a holy nation because God had called it out, had chosen it to be His, had put His name upon it. The family of Abraham was signed with Gods covenant, and was declared to be holy. Was it not so actually? Was it only so because Jacob was the head of it, or because Joseph was a member of it? The Scripture is careful to preserve us from any such feeble notions. It forces us to see that Joseph was better than his brethren, just because he identified himself with the family, and they acted as if they did not belong to it; because he believed that God had chosen it, and they forgot that He had; because he did, and they did not, believe it to be holy. The nation of Israel was told that the invisible God was actually their king; that He had brought them out of the house of bondage; that He was with them in the wilderness; that He would be with them in the promised laud. Supposing any Israelite to believe this, he was a strong, brave, free man; he could overcome the enemies of his land; he could tread his own underfoot. See, then, how reasonable the prayer was which I have taken for nay text. Because Moses regarded the Israelites as a holy and chosen people, redeemed by Gods own hand; because he believed that this description belonged to the whole covenant people at all times; therefore he felt with intense anguish their stubbornness, their wickedness, and their sin. Had they not been a holy people he would not have known in what their sin consisted. It was the forgetfulness of their holy state--the choice of another--which he confessed with such shame and sorrow before God; it was because they had gone out of the right way, forgetting that they were a nation, each man preferring a selfish way of his own--each thinking that he had an interest apart from his neighbour, apart from the body to which he belonged--that they needed his intercession and Gods renewing and restoring mercy. And Moses could ask for that restoring mercy; he had the power to pray, because he was sure that he was asking according to Gods will, because he was sure that he was asking that that which resisted His will might be taken away. (F. D. Maurice, M. A.)
Moses at the highest level of his ministry
Here we learn what Moses was--in spite of his imperfections--in the sight of God and men; and to what place of honour he attained among that great cloud of witnesses whose lives pass before us in Scripture. In this part of his history which he recounts he stands conspicuous.
I. In his zeal for the Divine honour.
1. Moses had been, forty days and nights on Sinai in the Divine presence, receiving revelations of Gods mind and will The people had become impatient, had forgotten the near presence of God, and fell away from Him. When Moses came near the camp, on descending from the mount, the idolatrous Scene that met his gaze roused him to anger, and he broke the tables of the law which he had brought from the mount, and only at his intercession the people were saved.
2. God has given His people many proofs of His goodness, condescension, etc. But around are many evidences of languor, of lukewarmness, and even of apostasy. If not outwardly, then in heart many, have turned back from God. Should not a holy indignation fill the breasts of Gods true servants; should not they, and all who belong to the Lord, strive against this defection, call those sins by their right names, etc.? There are situations in which such a zeal should characterise the office-bearers of the Church and all true members of the same.
II. In his earnest entreaty for his people.
1. He fell down before the Lord, etc., in earnest prayer for the people, as he had often done. So earnest that he asked that he himself might be blotted out of the book God had written if their sins were not forgiven (Exo_32:32). And his effectual fervent prayer was answered.
2. How like in spirit to the great apostles prayers was the prayer of Moses! (Rom_9:3.) If we go through the books of holy writ we see what may be done through prayer. The prayers of a Samuel, Hezekiah, Isaiah, Daniel, and the prayers of our Lord (Heb_5:5-7) all encourage to earnest prayer. Oh, that we could pray as earnestly and believingly as a Monica, a Luther, etc., or as Moses here prayed for his people! that we could wrestle in prayer for the lost and erring, for every soul sunk in sin, and remind God of His gracious promises, etc.! In these days, where means and ways must be considered whereby the channels of a true spiritual and moral life may be laid among the people, prayer and supplication are chief means. Let us use them earnestly. (Albert Kyphe.)
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v26 (See Scofield "Exo 14:30").
redeemed
(See Scofield "Exo 14:30").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv25, 27 General Information:
General Information:
Moses continues reminding the people of Israel about what happened in the past.
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lay facedown before Yahweh
"lay with my face on the ground." See how you translated this in Deuteronomy 9:18.
forty days and forty nights
"40 days and 40 nights" (See: Numbers)
you have redeemed
Moses speaks as if Yahweh had rescued the Israelites by paying money to free them from slavery. AT: "you have rescued" (See: Metaphor)
through your greatness
The word "greatness" is a metonym for Yahweh's great power. AT: "through your great power" (See: Metonymy)
with a mighty hand
Here "a mighty hand" refers to Yahweh's power. See how you translated similar words in Deuteronomy 4:34. AT: "with your mighty power" (See: Metaphor)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv26–27 9:26 The Lord redeemed Israel from their bondage in…
9:26 The Lord redeemed Israel from their bondage in Egypt by his own gracious efforts on their behalf.
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