Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
threads t1 · t2 · t5 · see Genesis 15:13-14 · Exodus 3:6 · Romans 9:17
Moses and Aaron go before Pharaoh with the word of the God of Israel: let my people go. Pharaoh's response is the question the next ten chapters will answer: who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Mi YHWH, who is YHWH? It is a genuine question from the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth. Egypt has many gods. Egypt has the Nile, the sun, the fertility of the black soil. Why should Pharaoh reorganize his empire around the command of a god he does not know?
The plagues are the answer. Each one demonstrates who YHWH is by demonstrating what YHWH can do, and specifically what the gods of Egypt cannot do in response. The Pharaoh who asks who is YHWH will know by Exodus 12:31-32.
Meanwhile the Israelites' situation gets worse. Pharaoh removes the straw ration and demands the same brick quota. The taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen. The foremen blame Moses. Moses complains to God. And God responds with Exodus 6: the covenant restatement. I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai but by my name YHWH I was not known to them in the fullness of its experiential meaning. Now they will know it. Thread 1 is in the divine persistence: even when Moses is being blamed by the people he came to rescue, God does not withdraw the commission. Thread 2 is the covenant restatement: what is about to happen is the execution of what God swore to Abraham in Genesis 15.
Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice? Pharaoh's question is the question the ten plagues will answer; and the divine name YHWH revealed to Moses is the covenant name that was promised but not yet demonstrated in the fullness of its power.
מִי יְהוָה אֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁמַע בְּקֹלוֹ (mi YHWH asher eshma be-qolo): who is the LORD that I should obey his voice: mi (who, the question of identity, not of location; Pharaoh is not asking where God is but what kind of God he is; the mi question is answered by the plagues that follow); eshma be-qolo (that I should hear in his voice, the shema word, the hearing-obedience word; Pharaoh refuses both the hearing and the obedience) · וּשְׁמִי יְהוָה לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם (u-shmi YHWH lo nodati lahem): but by my name YHWH was I not known to them: nodati (I was not made known, Niphal of yada; the knowing is experiential and covenantal, not merely informational; the patriarchs knew the name YHWH but had not yet experienced its full covenant-keeping power in the way the Exodus generation was about to)
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