children. Moses refused, and the plague followed, Ex 714-16. 17. 18. 21a, 34. 95 gi-4. 8-150. 20-82 Qi-7. 13-18, 280. 24.
250-29. 31-34 1015. 850-11, 13b. 140. 15a. 160-19.
(j) After the removal of the locusts, Pharaoh sent for Moses and offered to let all the Israelites, both old and young, go to sacrifice if they would leave their cattle behind. Moses refused, and Pharaoh, in great anger, bade him go, and declared that he should never see his face again. Moses answered, ‘Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more,’ and announced that all the firstborn of the Egyptians should perish, while no Israelite should suffer anything ; and that in con- sequence all Pharaoh’s servants should come to Moses, and entreat him and his people to go. After this utterance, Moses, in hot anger, left fre
resence of Pharaoh, Ex 10% 28.28 ]]+8, [Then loses directed the elders of Israel to kill the passover-lamb, and to put some of its blood upon τρεῖς rath eat door-posts, bad whe a by slaying the tians He might spare the Israel- ee: x paw ey + At sii ht J” slew all the firstborn of the Egyptians; and the Egyptians, in a panic, made the ΘΕ: start on their journey to the desert in such haste that they carried their dough with them unbaked. A mixed multitude went with them, Ex 12: 80. 31b-8. 37-39,
{Moses gave laws as to the Passover, etc. 13% 4-7. 1-18). ἢ
(k) Guided by J” in a pillar, by day a cloud, by night a fire, Moses led the Israelites into the wildacaces, towards the sea.‘ Pharaoh, recovering
from his terror, pursued them with his army. At *So Bacon, followed in Aaron and Exopvus; Dillmann, Jiilicher, and Cornill ascribe these verses to R; οἵ, (a)
t The introduction of Aaron into the J narratives of the plagues is due to R.
t So Dillmanu and Bacon; but, according to Addis, Cornill, etc., inserted by R, perhaps from source other than JE,
ᾧ The 600,000 in v.87 is probably R ; so Addis, etc.
1 So Bacon; but mostly assigned to R. It may be J material, but owes its position to R; 1.¢. in the separate J the giving of laws was not an incident of the burried fight.
4 Cf. art. Rep ὅκα.
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Aaron does not appear in the narrative of the ἘΙΒΕΙΕΒ, the references in the present text being
ue to redactors, and his réle is not clear; he scarcely seems to have been the brother and almost equal partner of Moses, perhaps not even the priest; but is chiefly conspicuous as _oppos- ing Moses and leading Tere in sin. He was perhaps represented as a chief amongst the elders.*
(b) Moses was born of parents of the house of Levi, at a time when Pharaoh had ordered that all male children born to Israelites should be put to death. He was hidden for three months, and then placed in an ark of bulrushes, amongst the flags by the Nile. His sister + watched him, and, when he was found and pitied by Pharaoh’s daughter, the sister induced her to employ Moses’ mother as his nurse. Later on he was taken into the princess’s house and trained as an Egyptian noble, Ex 2', (c) But when he was grown up, and had learnt that he was an Israelite, he went to see how his people fared, slew an Egyptian who was ill-treating an Israelite, and when he found, on attempting the next day to reconcile two Israelites, that his deed was known, he fled to Midian, Ex 211-δ +
(e)§ While Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, on Harel, the mountain of God, God called to him, and announced Himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ‘and Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.’ God told him that He had heard the cry of the oppressed Israelites, and would send Moses to Pharaoh, that the Israelites might be released. Moses rene’ his unfitness for such a mission ; and God promised to be with him, and gave him a sign, that the people, after esca ing from Egypt, should worship Him on Horeb, x Sees
(f) God revealed to Moses His new name, YAHWEH, which is explained as equivalent to *EHYEH (EV, ‘I am’), in the phrase "EHYEH "ASHER ’EHYEH (EV, ‘I ΑΜ THAT I AM’); 4% warned him that Pharaoh would not release the Israelites till Egypt had been smitten with ‘all my wonders,’ and directed that, when the Israelites departed, their women should borrow jewels and raiment of their Egyptian neighbours. He gave Moses a rod, with which to work the wonders, Ex 3h. 14. 19-22 4i7,
(d) Moses took leave of Jethro, and set out for Egy at ‘with the red of God in his hand,’ Ex 4 δ. 2 He
[(6) At ‘the mount of God,’ Aaron, sent by J’, met, him ; and he told Aaron all J”s words, Ex 451. 28), **
(ἃ) Moses [and Aaron] went to Pharaoh, and in the name of J” bade him let Israel go ; he refused, reproached them with keeping the Israelites from their labour, and bade Moses [and Aaron] get to their burdens, Ex 5 4,
(i) At the command of J”, Moses inflicted upon the Egyptians jive plagues—the turning of the Nile into Blood; Hail; Locusts; Three Days’ Darkness; the Death of the Firstborn (for the last see next paragraph). As regards the first four —in each case Moses worked the miracle by lift- ing up or stretching out the rod; ++ and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened. It is stated that after the