Consequently for this various development of the truth there is no book in scripture so remarkable as the very first of the Pentateuch: In fact, in a general way we may say that all the other books take up special truths, which are at any rate in the germ presented there. (Psalms 77:15; and Psalms 78:14.) ( Exodus 13:1-2) The firstborn belongs to God. "[28] Based upon Paul's declaration in Corinthians that the Rock that followed Israel was Christ, Cyprian identified "Jehovah" in this passage with the Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of Jehovah.[29]. *The remarks of Dr. D. (Introd. pp. And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. God claimed the firstborn of all the animals. Grace is then no more grace, but only a vain pretension the flippant use of words without power. Speaking of America, he remarks (ib. The believer is not only bought by the precious blood of Christ, but delivered from the power of the enemy, just as Israel was in type here. There is no such thought as that they had no right involved in the matter. For no race ever was more apt to find matter for blame than they, none quicker to see their own advantages or to speak out whatever they did see. The truth is that He speaks of good men and bad men; that He mentions not only what was excellent in the good, but such distressing and shameful things as draw out His own chastening it may be for a long while to come. Then, when the people who had voluntarily accepted legal conditions murmured once more for flesh, tiring of the manna, they were dealt with according to the law under which they stood, and judgment fell on them from God, instead of the grace they had originally known. Verse Exodus 13:21. "And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud " The purpose of this was "to lead them the way." Thus Aaron and his sons had no such duty in the Passover, as we find in the extraordinary temple celebration recorded in2 Chronicles 30:5; 2 Chronicles 30:5. Happy art thou, O Israel! Also, they'll wrap another little leather box there on their forehead.In these little boxes are copies of the commandments of God. It was indeed a marvelous act of loving-kindness that, accommodating Himself to their ignorance, he familiarly presented Himself before their eyes. And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; that they might go by day and by night: the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not from before the people. Elohim in both reveals Himself or is spoken of as Jehovah. Laws regarding servitude. It was the unworthy dealing of his brethren which broke up all hope for the present. It was not first received in Midian and afterwards repeated in Egypt, because the former call is followed by Moses and Aaron going in to Pharaoh and asking him to let the Israelites go for the purpose of holding a feast in the wilderness. Thus, in Genesis 22:1-24, when Isaac was taken from under the sentence of death, Abraham calls the place "Jehovah-Jireh." One was a short cut from the north of Egypt to the south of Canaan, perhaps about four or five days' journey; the other was much further about, through the wilderness, and that was the way in which God chose to lead his people Israel, Exodus 13:18; Exodus 13:18. Here man had to face death, and that in what was dearest to him his first-born. Let us remember this. The effect of the one is that the enemy has no longer the slightest claim to us, or power over us; the effect of the other is that the Lord has a perfect right to us in every particular. 4. That the words could have such a meaning might possibly be true, but, if so, it is another instance, of which there are many, where critics have deliberately chosen a rendition that would afford a denial or a contradiction. Of course by many this will scarce be understood. Let them know that God would work according to what belongs exclusively to Him. Thus, although we have sacrifice as such, covenant and other kindred dealings of God, redemption in its full import at least is never brought before us in that book. All right, now you see God had spared the firstborn. Read Chapter Compare PREVIOUS Exodus 13:20 NEXT Exodus 13:22 "Succoth Etham " It is pointless to speculate about the exact location of many of the places mentioned in Exodus, despite the fact of a detailed listing of the places being included in Numbers. Verse Exodus 13:13. The point of both histories is absolutely lost for those who fail to see a contrast in them, instead of both having grown out of one. It is astonishing what a difference it makes when one can afford and has made up one's mind to drop self. It's so that the idea on their forehead, that it might be in my mind to do the will of God; on your hand that it might be on the strength of your hand to do service to the Lord. These two truths combine in the Christian; but there is this difference between them that the world also is "bought," and every man in it; whereas it would be false to say that every man in the world is "redeemed." It is not true that there are different documents inNumbers 20:1-13; Numbers 20:1-13 any more than in Exodus 17:2-7: "Jehovah" characterises both as any one can ascertain. l. 1. p. 348. z Climat. The children of Israel were baptized unto Moses in this cloud, which, some think, distilled dew upon them, 1 Corinthians 10:2. For scripture savours of God's own infinity, however He may come down to us, and adopt the language of men, as we know He has done. i. [ a] The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle. 1. This shows the imperfect development of the divine to which the author's age had attained," etc. Again, after that plague of blood bad run its course in vain for seven days, that of frogs rose up from the streams, rivers, and ponds, and the land was covered with these actively disgusting objects, as the waters had shocked and sickened them before. And He shall be fling over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Jehovah, and His name one. But when it stood still above the tabernacle, or came down upon it, it most probably took the form of a round globe of cloud; and when it separated the Israelites from the Egyptians at the Red Sea, we have to imagine it spread out like a bank of cloud, forming, as it were, a dividing wall. But then no chastening is right unless it flow from just authority; and hence the connection between the two ideas in this emblem. God himself is the keeper of Israel, and he neither slumbers nor sleeps,Psalms 121:4; Isaiah 27:3. Exodus 13:21-22 the Pillar of Fire "The Lord was going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. Exodus 13:21 LORD H3068 went H1980 (H8802) before H6440 day H3119 pillar H5982 cloud H6051 lead H5148 . It was a matter between God and the soul, outside the domain of sense and nature. God gave them this ocular demonstration of his presence, in compassion to the infirmity of their faith, and in compliance with that infant state of the church, which needed to be thus lisped to in their own language; but blessed are those that have not seen and yet have believed God's gracious presence with them, according to his promise. Ever since Sir Alan Gardiner, a preeminent authority on hieroglyphics, announced his erroneous conclusion that the [~Yam] [~Cuwp] of the O.T., by reason of its identification with an Egyptian word, p3TWF(y), "beyond dispute,"[32] means Reed Sea, many of the translators of the Bible, even, have been deceived, leading to the adoption of this outrageous translation in such Versions as the RSV, the Jerusalem Bible, the New American Bible, the New English Bible, and with learned notes admitting it, in such Versions as the NIV. Succoth was evidently north and west of the Bitter Lakes (Exodus 13:20). Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day it shall be a feast to the Lord. "[36] This simply means that it is linguistically impossible for it to modify the word "sea.". The men might be "girt" or "in regular order" without all being armed, and very far indeed from being all "warriors". . And thus fittingly He, as Jehovah their God, pledges before them His own unchangeable character to accomplish His promises. Both appear to be used in the New Testament, as is familiar to us, if one of them is more prominent in the Old. The Israelites were to be humbled and proved in the wilderness, Deuteronomy 8:2. Instead they went east towards the Red Sea (17-18). They could actually make the journey within a week or so and be in the land. God was going to put honour on Moses, but there was a dishonour to Him in the house of Moses already. Moses then bends to the blast. In the day-time, for the purpose of pointing out the way, a column or pillar of a cloud was all that was requisite. But even Gesenius and Knobel take the word otherwise, and so do Onkelos and Aben Ezra, as Dr. McCaul has shown. There might be unreadiness on their part, but He at any rate was able to make good all He had promised. They cannot deny that there is all possible difference between the reddish tint of the Nile for some weeks in June, without one of these consequences as compared with so severe a blow in or about January on the river of their pride and idolatry, which had seen the cruel death of Israel's male children. Thus the hardening is a judicial act on God's part, which comes in after man has proved himself an unbeliever, and has persisted in it. So it is with all other truths; and amongst the rest with this, that God, instead of waiting to have us in heaven, and taking up His abode in our midst there, makes us to be His habitation while we are here a proof of His love and of the perfectness of Christ's redemption incomparably greater than waiting till we are actually changed and taken to heaven, because here He deigns to dwell with us spite of all we are. It was for the purpose of having the full power of Satan brought out against His people that He might demolish it for ever. It was not only an infliction on the land; it was not only a deep pain and anguish to the natives, and this with increasing intensity; but it was a solemn contest between Jehovah and the gods of Egypt. It is the custom among the Jews to write this entire passage - Exodus 13:1-16 - on two of the four strips of parchment contained in the tephillin. Many of these sites were nothing more than stopping points or oases; they were not established towns. Perversity alone could in this see phenomena ordinary in Egypt, let the time or other circumstances be what they might. Thus in Romans 5:1-21 salvation is very clearly referred to, and put in full contradistinction to what God has wrought for us by the blood of Christ. Judge nothing before the time. But more than that, it endangered Moses; for God had the controversy with him not with his wife. Christ was with the church in the wilderness, 1 Corinthians 10:9. This seems to be conveyed in these three signs. Nevertheless God is faithful, and the very efforts to destroy are met by His good hand, who produces faithfulness even in those that might have been supposed most of all subservient to the cruel designs of the king. Not only are they represented as happening more than twelve months apart, but the truth conveyed depends on the deepest possible difference. When we come together as His assembly, should we not remind ourselves that we are not only members of the body of Christ, but God's habitation through the Spirit? Exodus 17:7), the cloud is invariably referred to, with the definite article, as something already known, so that all these passages refer to Exodus 13:21 of the present chapter. Here is the guidance they were blessed with in the way: The Lord went before them in a pillar,Exodus 13:21; Exodus 13:22. The force of this is made still more manifest by what follows. O. T. i. Without it there is nothing good, righteous, or holy, as far as we are concerned; without it there is no adequate dealing with sin; without it there is no vindication of the majesty of God. 3. par. It is Moses, a man of whom the Spirit of God has made the largest use not only in the Old Testament but in the New, as in so many forms shadowing forth the Lord Jesus. Clarke's Commentary. It is not WHERE, but WHAT was done there that counts. "[35] The ancients, prior to 1500 B.C., believed that all of the great Southern Oceans, including even the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and both the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, were portions of the End Sea at the end of the world. God never compelled a man to be au unbeliever. And it shall be for a sign unto you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, the lord's law may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt. When the signs were wrought at first, the people and Moses asked leave of absence for three days only. In short, how is there any intelligent acceptance of Napier's charge of conflict? Moses had not yet organized them as an army. There is NO conflict, but the narrative continues in an orderly and understandable sequence. It was what was involved in the formula of His revelation to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But there is another lesson also. But there is more than this. The curtain (velum) of the natural which surrounds the Deity is moved and lifted (revelatur) by the word of His will, and the corresponding intention of His presence (per dextram Dei). 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: And the Lord went before them in a pillar , And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Had Moses not visited the king to ask for the thing he was called by God to effect, we might suppose that the call was repeated; but since he did so a second call was unnecessary! We are not to regard the phenomenon as consisting of two different pillars, that appeared alternately, one of cloud, and the other of fire. Thus, alongside the first plague (Exodus 7:15-25), they put the fact that Ehrenberg in 1823 saw the inlet of the Red Sea, near Sinai, stained a blood-red colour by cryptogamic plants. III. "I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." Every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb Or a kid, as in the margin. Just so is it in the New Testament. God hardens because man refuses His word. So they do this before they pray at the wall. But the firstborn became a sacrifice unto the Lord. It was impossible for the Spirit, on the one hand, to blame the love that prompted the hand of Moses; it was impossible, on the other, to vindicate the act. This is described in the rest of the chapter. ", Accordingly, as a message to Israel, surrounded by the vanities of the heathen those imaginary objects of adoration whose rle really was that of demons taking advantage of man's superstition and folly, it was a fine and an admirable name for those who might ask it: "I AM hath sent me.". The Israelite's own proud spirit was ready to insinuate pride in others. As a word "Jehovah" occurs frequently in the book of Genesis, in a way which shows not only that the writer knew the term, but that it was in use from the beginning. It was the last place where man would have looked for refreshing streams. But Exodus 14:1-31 brings before us another order of ideas. "Now we know in part." Therefore in2 Peter 2:1-22; 2 Peter 2:1-22, for instance, we hear wicked heretics spoken of as denying the Lord ( ), not that redeemed, but "that bought them." God claimed the firstborn, not only of the children but also of the animals that were born. Thus: He spread a CLOUD for their COVERING; Psalms 105:39. think, feel, speak, and act unworthily of such a habitation; and yet in the face of all He here deigns to dwell in us. The whole critical fraternity of Biblical detractors "have as yet been unable to achieve any significant measure of unity on the actual identity of the Reed Sea. Genesis 50:25; Hebrews 11:22). Indeed the denial of salvation as a present status is part of the current coin of Christendom, and the truth is opposed in one way or another by the parties who otherwise oppose each other. Both were granted together in the second month of the first year after the exodus. If you didn't redeem it, then you had to kill it, the donkey, or the cow or whatever. Note, Those whom God brings into a wilderness he will not leave nor lose there, but will take care to lead them through it; we may well think it was a very great satisfaction to Moses and the pious Israelites to be sure that they were under divine guidance. "[24] We consider "Sea of Reeds" or "Reed Sea" as corrupt renditions of this place. . There was but one pillar of both cloud and fire (Exodus 14:24); for even when shining in the dark, it is still called the pillar of cloud (Exodus 14:19), or the cloud (Numbers 9:21); so that it was a cloud with a dark side and a bright one, causing darkness and also lighting the night (Exodus 14:20), or "a cloud, and fire in it by night" (Exodus 40:38). See Numbers 9:16-18, &c. When they left Egypt, the Israelites did not go by way of the Mediterranean coast, as this was well defended by the Egyptians and war would certainly have resulted. The powers of the air were at the command of Jehovah and against Egypt. Holiness in Scripture is as much made to depend on redemption as God's being able righteously to come and dwell in our midst. Here then having the typical redemption of Israel from Egypt the greatest and fullest type of it in the Old Testament, immediately after (without even allowing a single chapter to intervene) we hear of God glorious in holiness, as well as of a habitation prepared for Him. M. V. 2, 7), in trackless countries in the front of armies also, and by which the direction of the road was indicated in the day-time by the smoke, and at night by the light of the fire. As then the living streams flowed, so the Holy Ghost, we know, was not given till Christ was glorified as the result of redemption. 158.]. At nighttime there was the light in the sky to lead them, and they walked in the light of this fire, this flaming fire at night in the sky that was there to direct them. (z) Climat. This he entirely declines. May the Lord then grant us unfeigned and growing confidence in all that which He is! Let us depend on God to bring out the truth for our intelligence in the measure which fits His glory, and as He pleases to accomplish more fully the purpose for which He has revealed it. In making these few remarks, I believe we have touched on the principal topics which will come before us, and nearly in the order in which God has presented them. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light to go by day and night ( Exodus 13:20-21 ): For they needed to get out of there, and so they were traveling day and night for awhile. Give nature its place, and what belongs to it; but always maintain the superiority of grace in order to do so. We have what belongs to heaven while we are here. Man proposes, but God disposes, and in his disposal we must acquiesce, and set ourselves to follow providence. But the subject is so familiar to us that we need not enlarge upon the minuti of this feast. The fastest way there is Interstate 5 which goes right up the middle of the State. Exodus 13:21 And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night. It was a cloud which the wind could not scatter. 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. It is commoner than people imagine. And surely that promise, , The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night, (Psalms 121:6,). New American Standard Version A. Had one and the same author described this extraordinary food of the Israelites, he would not have presented such varying accounts. 1. In any other book there would be a kind of apology, if not an elaborate argument, a discourse on the matter, to vindicate God from all participation in what was far from being according to His own holiness. It is no explanation to assert that there is nothing improbable in supposing that the Israelites twice murmured for flesh, and that God twice sent them quails. And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that opens the matrix, being males; but the firstborn of my children I redeem ( Exodus 13:15 ). How infinitely gracious of God, that the name taken for ever in connection with Israel is not that which relegates every other creature into its own nothingness, which makes all to be merely the consequence of His word and of His will! ), "Red Sea " Why Red? As for the second book, Exodus, there is one grand idea which pervades it redemption The consequences of redemption, as well as the circumstances in which it was accomplished, are brought before us in a very full and complete manner, as we shall see. 1. Amalek has to be fought. Even in the third and fourth plagues we find God marking off His people. Here again, we have an insistent chorus from the critics demanding that this be translated Reed Sea. 3. par. He is thus more incredulous than the magicians who said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God" not a mere combination of unusual circumstances with a natural phenomenon. Nevertheless peace is impossible if we have only that which answers to the Passover. Full of courage when God's time was not come, he feels the obstacles when it is. Joseph had particularly appointed that his bones should be carried up when God should visit the (Genesis 50:25; Genesis 50:26), so that their carrying up his bones was not only a performance of the oath their fathers had sworn to Joseph, but an acknowledgment of the performance of God's promise to them by Joseph that he would visit them and bring them out of the land of Egypt, and an encouragement to their faith and hope that he would fulfil the other part of the promise, which was to bring them to Canaan, in expectation of which they carried these bones with them while they wandered in the desert. Why? But by then the wind had dropped and the sea waters began to return to normal, bringing firstly confusion, then panic, and finally destruction to the Egyptian chariot force (21-29). How this was arrested is a most instructive lesson, but it will be found later on in this book. Their proud will was broken, although their hearts were by no means with God. This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." The bearing of this on the Christian is most evident. 13 NIDOTTENew International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology Whether all were to be fully made good now, or whether only to a partial extent, whether even the partial accomplishment was to be opposed and weakened, and useless as far as this could do it by Israel's own folly and sin, all this would afterwards appear. It led the way in that vast howling wilderness, in which there was no road, no track, no way-mark, of which they had no maps, through which they had no guides. Salvation means known conscious deliverance. [Note: Kaiser, "Exodus," p. It is plain therefore, that salvation requires and involves not only the death but the life of Christ; that salvation supposes not merely guilt removed through His blood, but ourselves maintained, and to be brought through all difficulties, past, present, and future. It was meant to be an image of that which was then presented to the spirit of Moses a bush in a desert burning but unconsumed. The statement of Moses, then, that He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, is a blessing which God extends to us, as well as to them, except only the visible symbol, which was temporary, on account of the infirmity of the people. From the late census made in America, it appears that taking all the states together, they have still continued to double their numbers every twenty-five years; and as the whole population is now so great as not to be materially affected by the emigrations from Europe, and as it is known that, in some of the towns and districts near the sea coast, the progress of population has been comparatively slow, it is evident that in the interior of the country in general the period of doubling from procreation only must have been considerably less than twenty-five years." In truth, on Him hangs everything. The Authorised Version gives the sense. *To argue against the increase of Israel in Egypt from the data of the Pentateuch is the more unreasonable as the record does not give it as an ordinary ratio, but from the direct blessing of God according to His appearance to the fathers, and the more striking, because He kept them comparatively few till the descent into the house of bondage, and there multiplied them in the face of the hottest persecution long before they were led out in triumph. And is there anything that more beautifully shows the character of scripture than this? [30], At the time when our notes above on this subject were written, the tremendously significant writings of Bernard Batto on this subject had not been published; but, in Biblical Archeology Review for July/August, 1984, the absolute and final answer to this question has been resolved. Another fact is mentioned before we close the chapter, and one of deep and grave practical instruction. It is an equal error to suppose that God hardens a person when He first sends a testimony as to deny that He does harden after His testimony has been refused. All the promises in Him are Yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. He was their guide. The very same. This is remarkably evinced in the character now given them, as well as their preciousness with God. Peculiar to the land of Egypt as the only feast that could be celebrated there, it was laid down specifically for the wilderness (Numbers 9:1-23); and when Israel shall enter the land again, even when the time of glory arrives for the world, still there will be the feast of the Passover. For thou shalt show thy son in that day, saying, This is done because that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. They groaned only because of their wretchedness; but there was no looking out to God no counting on His mercy. There was only one cloudy pillar (Exodus 13:21; cf. Next, the seventh plague (Exodus 9:13-35), hail with thunder and consuming fire, drew from Pharaoh the confession of his sin and a promise to let the people go, broken by him as soon as Jehovah heard the intercession of Moses. 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. "Sanctify unto me all the firstborn." As the same name could not be given twice, both must have grown out of one. So God is saying, "All right now set aside all the firstborn, they're Mine." Exodus 13:21 - Bible Verse Meaning and Commentary Exodus 13:21 PREVIOUS Exodus 13:20 NEXT Exodus 13:22 Exodus 13:21 And the Lord went before them That which ought to have been for refreshment as well as for purifying becomes the sign of death life no longer in the body. And then Moses speaks, and says, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, Jehovah hath not appeared unto thee.". can only explain the fact by assuming that two sorts of manna are meant; what he calls air-manna and tree-manna. It is now, after redemption, that God reveals Himself as "glorious in holiness." Thus and thus only was the Israelite to eat of the lamb, sanctified by and to this holy feast, eating of its roast flesh that night and leaving none till the morning, or, if aught remained, burning it with fire. In this, too, appeared "the glory of the Lord" (Exodus 16:10; Exodus 40:34; Numbers 17:7), the Shechinah of the later Jewish theology. The fact is that all is clear and consistent but progressive; and the petty pretence of Elohistic and Jehovistic documents manifestly fails; for Exodus 3:1-22 is characterised by the use of Jehovah in a way exactly similar to Exodus 6:1-30. (Exodus 4:1-31) The attention of Moses is drawn to what was in his hand a rod which, when cast on the ground, became a serpent. 2. The fact is here named that they hid him; and when they could no longer do so, or it may be, when they had no longer faith to proceed as before, they committed him to an ark of bulrushes in the river, when the daughter of Pharaoh takes up the child and adopts him as her own. We owe everything to Christ. Now in Christianity this has a most blessed antitype. There was nothing the people and even at last the king of Egypt were not disposed to concede: later on in spite of all their own interests in the retention of the children of Israel, they were willing and desirous that they should go, and that they should not go away empty. The latter account is very different. It is of course as simple as necessary for those who know God, but none the less delightful to find it stated clearly. Therefore, although Moses states that God was in the cloud and in the pillar of fire, yet does he not wish to draw Him down from heaven, nor to subject His infinite glory to visible signs, with which His truth may consist without His local presence. The plague struck their first-born, the joy and hope of their families. It is unwarrantable, therefore, to reason on what is so precarious. All these things we learn in due time as they were known to Him before He began. In Exodus 7:1-25 begins the great struggle, and wonders upon wonders awfully fall on the devoted land of Egypt. Tools. Salvation always means a great deal more than that my sins are judged in the death of Christ. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people" ( Exodus 13:21-22 ). The foundation of this duty rested on the fact that the Israelites, having had their first-born preserved by a distinguishing act of grace from the general destruction . Is this the man once so ready to smite Rahab and deliver Israel? They were particularly suited in the wisdom of God to humble Egypt. So Moses and Aaron go in and tell Pharaoh the message of Jehovah; and Pharaoh, with the insolence natural]. Here they were clearly on the simple ground of grace; and immediately afterwards we have the triumphant song of Moses and the children of Israel "I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 20, 21, the small number of priests for their work, they are imaginary and prove great inattention to the facts in Scripture. (Exodus 6:9; Exodus 6:12) But in Exodus 4:31 they believed and rejoiced when he announced deliverance to them. from Succoth certainly, probably from Rameses, He moved in front of the host in the form of a pillar, which had the appearance of smoke by day and of fire by night.The Israelites marched, it is implied, some part of each day and some part of each night, which would be in . The manna of Numbers 11:1-35 renders this supposition extremely improbable. But, of course, what the critics are saying loud and clear by such renditions is that they do NOT believe one word of the Sacred Record. For there was not one quality in the people which could in anywise move the heart towards them except their misery not one worthy moral feeling, not one generous emotion, not the smallest care for the glory of God. It is by confounding the scriptures that men misunderstand them: if we would indeed enter into the real force of God's word, it must always be by distinguishing the things that differ. His parents' faith is not spoken of here, it is true, but, as we know, in the New Testament. Hence it will be found that in the doctrine of the New Testament there is never the allowance of such a thought as that salvation is only the beginning of the blessing. Whatever may be the refreshment by the way, the Lord sets forth in a full and distinct manner the need of absolute dependence on Christ in another form for support all the wilderness through. Jamieson and others have pointed out that not only the remains of Joseph, but those of other patriarchs, were also removed from Egypt (Acts 7:10).[15]. Whether it would come to a result or not depended on altogether different circumstances not on any failure in Him. 3. Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary It may be said that the elders were the persons spoken to in the latter case, not the people; and that they were induced to believe in him by the signs he wrought. And here comes in another principle of immense importance. If you wanted to keep it for yourself, then you had to purchase it from God. First of all then we have a sketch of the chosen people in the land of Egypt. Thus they were initiated, and admitted under that government, now when they were entering upon the wilderness. (21,22) Commentary on Exodus 13:1-10 (Read Exodus 13:1-10) It is the same word that is used for sea monsters generally. There were many reasons why God led them through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. The former represents them as a boon given by God to satisfy the people's hunger, and convince them of their dependence on the covenant God. But this is effected not by His causing the light of His countenance, which is unapproachable, to burst forth unveiled, but by His weaving out of the natural element a holy, transparent veil, which, like the fiery cloud, both shines and throws a shade, veils and unveils, so that it is equally true that God dwells in light and that He dwells in darkness (2 Chronicles 6:1; 1 Timothy 6:16), as true that He can be found as that He must always be sought."). God's people do not even know His name! Here is, I. etc.". Then Moses finds another difficulty. We may say then, as a prophet did later, that they groaned; but they did not groan to God. Can there be more absurd trifling than the sentence thatExodus 15:1-27; Exodus 15:1-27 ("the poem as we now have it", is Elohistic as contrasted with Exodus 14:1-31? At last in Exodus 12:1-51 comes the grand decisive stroke, where there was no appearance of second causes, and the hand of God made itself felt in an unprecedented way. But besides this complete devotedness we see also the ordinance of the unleavened bread in this connection, that is, unfeigned purity of heart by faith. The two things are here put together as flowing from the sense of a divinely wrought deliverance. What beauty can they trace in that which has been occupying us? This day that you came out in the month of April. 65) that "the Israelites did not listen to Moses at first for anguish of spirit and cruel bondage. (11-16) Joseph's bones carried with the Israelites, They come to Etham. * Christ's blood has purchased the whole world with every soul and every other creature in it. Hence, when He calls Moses to draw near, He first of all proclaims Himself the God of his fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Hence the Passover is brought before us of which the New Testament makes great account the type of Christ the Lamb of God sacrificed for us, with the striking accompaniment of leaven absolutely excluded Leaven represents iniquity in its tendency to extend itself by assimilating what was exposed to its action This ordinance then means the disallowance and putting away of all evil that belongs to man in his fallen state. Look at authority in the world, or at that which pertains to man, or at the resources of nature: a man brings the vouchers of One who was sovereign over every domain. One of the most salient features of the book of Genesis is the variety in which the Holy Spirit has set forth the various principles on which God deals, the ways in which He manifests Himself, the special foreshadowings of the Lord Jesus, and this not only in respect to man but Israel and even the church in type. (Read Exodus 12:29-36) The Egyptians had been for three days and nights kept in anxiety and horror by the darkness; now their rest is broken by a far more terrible calamity. But what a lesson it is! *The attempt to eke out proofs of diversity of authorship from alleged contradictions and confusion is not only futile, but evidence of incapacity to discern what is excellent and full of instruction. If they would not hearken to these two signs, there was a third which would affect the river. Confident as we may be that we are taught of God, it does not necessarily follow that there may not be another side of truth which we have yet to learn more fully. He might, indeed, have protected them in some other way from the heat of the sun, and directed them in the darkness of the night; but, in order that His power might be more manifest, He chose to add also His visible presence, to remove all room for doubt. So with Moses, Jehovah seems to be speaking according to the grace, as far as this could be unfolded then, which afterwards shone in the blessed Lord here below. Does not scripture mean that there is? The first-born sanctified to God The remembrance of the passover commanded. Protection draws allegiance; this cloud was the badge of God's protection, and so became the bond of their allegiance. Verse 21. Thus we find the junction of Aaron with Moses, which has many important consequences, and some of them of a serious character, as this book records. II. But both accounts concur in representing it as "air-manna," not as the exudation from a tree, which is medicine, not food. We are here in the place where we may, alas! (2.) These were constant standing miracles (Exodus 13:22; Exodus 13:22): He took not away the pillar of cloud; no, not when they seemed to have less occasion for it, travelling through inhabited countries, no, not when they murmured and were provoking; it never left them, till it brought them to the borders of Canaan. PART III: The Twelve Miracles of the Exodus (7:8-15:21) / 269 PART IV: The Journey to God (15:22-19:25) / 409 . As to the difficulties raised in Bishop Colenso's chaps. It reminds one of that which the Gospels tell us. ; and consequently the period of doubling at this rate would be less than sixteen years. Their effort is to strip and reduce them to the uttermost by exalting circumstances, which bear a somewhat similar appearance either ordinarily or occasionally, to a measure of correspondence. The last of these chapters that I would now notice is the typical picture of the scene of glory; and there too is seen the Gentile in singular prominence Jethro eating bread with the elders of Israel. Moses soon brings forward his difficulties and objections. Bible > Exodus > Chapter 13 > Verse 21 eBibles Free Downloads Audio Exodus 13:21 Context Crossref Comm Hebrew Verse (Click for Chapter) Our difficulty is that the very familiarity of men with it hinders their taking notice of what is under their eyes. Such is the known significance of blood symbolically in scripture. Just as little, too, must we suppose the visible and material part of it to have been an element of the divine nature, which is purely spiritual. But there is more than this; for God takes care to utter another word: "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you." Therefore the change in the body is the mere consequence of what we have already; whereas Christ in heavenly glory as the fruit of redemption and of God's righteousness is the hinge of all that will glorify God and secure the blessing not of the Old Testament saints and the church only but of Israel, the nations, man, the earth, heaven, and all things for ever, around the mighty centre of all. His main point seems to be that "in one single day, the whole immense population of Israel, as large as that of London, was instructed to keep the Passover, and actually did keep it." He might have been the simple and happy instrument of God in the mighty work; but Aaron is brought forward to share it. It is indeed a most important truth to hold fast, and no less full of consolation and blessing for our souls. There it is: when our eyes are opened, we see how unique its character is. Then follow signs of a miraculous kind in proof of Jehovah's mission of His servant. [Note: Meyer, p. It appears that the wife had something to do with the matter. But God knew that they were not yet prepared. But inExodus 3:1; Exodus 3:1, etc., he received it in Midian. The wilderness referred to in this verse would have been the wilderness of Shur located to the east of the Nile delta. The rationalist never suspects himself. On the other hand it is well known what all these ancient nations thought of the light of the sun, and how preternatural darkness (with light for Israel in Goshen) must have struck them. "Therefore the name of it was called Marah. To sanctify all their firstborn to him, ver 1, 2. The choice God made of their way, Exodus 13:17; Exodus 13:18. Having stated, in Exodus 13:17, that "God led the Israelites," and determined their route for them, the writer here proceeds to explain how this leading was accomplished. It is only to be read in the light of Christ and of God's revelations about Him: all then is clear and plain. (1-10) The firstlings of beasts set apart. Leprosy is the type of it in its defilement. This breakthrough of archeological information is actually founded upon the archeological discovery that that key Egyptian word, p3-TWF(y), through further studies of the hieroglyphics on ancient Egyptian monuments, has been proved to be "never a determinative for lake or water. (Exodus 10:21-29) The sovereign who derived his name from the sun availed nothing for all the land of Egypt, while the darkness which might be felt was made visible in its source by the light which all the children of Israel had in their habitations. Had Moses only spoken with the rod of the priesthood in his hand, the sign of grace which brought forth fruit out of death, all had been according to God's mind and the provision of His mercy to bring a weak and faulty people through the wilderness. "The Egyptian p3-TWFy has nothing to do with [~Yam] [~Cuwp]. It was there that God showed, not merely what must be in order that He should be able righteously to abstain from judging (and hence destroying) a sinful people, but what He is in defence of His people against all their foes, were they the mightiest. The Lord went before them That by the LORD here is meant the Lord Jesus, we have the authority of St. Paul to believe, 1 Corinthians 10:9: it was he whose Spirit they tempted in the wilderness, for it was he who led them through the desert to the promised rest. This was what had to be set forth: a slain lamb becomes the sole means of security* the sprinkled blood of the lamb. 236, 237) seem to me the wantonness of incredulity, which, irritated by the divine authority of Scripture, yields to the merest calumny. In all of Egypt they were all wiped out. The third and fourth plagues (in our version, lice and swarms of flies, Exodus 8:16-32,) may be open to discussion as to their specific character; but there can be no doubt that they dealt with man and beast with increasing intensity and the more distressingly if they interfered with personal cleanliness, and made the killing of what they venerated needful in self-defence. The Lord was going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. In the next part of the book of Exodus is a change of the greatest magnitude; but we shall find also that God never forgets His own people. Not a fact only but a type, still it was a type not of an earthly woe but of a judgment before the eyes of God judgment of sin. In such a position he had the finest opportunities for assuaging the hard lot of the Israelites, and it might be for accomplishing that which was so dear to his heart, their deliverance from thraldom. This clearly is not conveyed anywhere, but that God had not before revealed Himself in that relationship as He did then. What exists was called into being, and may pass out of it, if God so please. They had slain the Hebrews' children, now God slew theirs. It shall be for a token upon your hand, and for the frontlets between your eyes: for by strength of the hand of the Lord he brought us forth out of Egypt ( Exodus 13:16 ). 21.And the Lord went before them. Thus we have to make death and resurrection good in our practice, learning the reality of the wilderness and the utter want of all power of refreshment in the place and circumstances through which we are passing. , unto the Lord drop self signs, there was a matter between God and the same could! 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