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Exodus 4:5 KJV
Exodus · chapter 4 · verse 5
That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.Exodus 4:5 · King James Version
Exodus 4:5 in context
3And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
5That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
6And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
7And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- believeʼâmanproperly, to build up or supportH539 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- AbrahamʼAbrâhâmAbraham, the later name of AbramH85 →
- IsaacYitschâqJitschak , son of AbrahamH3327 →
- JacobYaʻăqôbJaakob, the Israelitish patriarchH3290 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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It was a very great honour that Moses was called to when God commissioned him to bring Israel out of Egypt; yet he is with difficulty persuaded to accept the commission, and does it at last with great reluctance, which we should rather impute to a humble diffidence of himself and his own sufficiency than to any…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9