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Exodus 7 Bible study: The river turned to blood
Pharaoh had said, "I don't know the LORD"; in Exodus 7 God answers, "The Egyptians shall know." Aaron speaks as Moses' prophet, his mouth. Aaron's rod swallowed the magicians' rods, and the river Pharaoh had ordered every newborn son cast into was turned to blood. The magicians made more of it, and Pharaoh went home without taking it to heart.
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“The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”
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“In Exodus 7, it was Aaron's rod that swallowed up the magicians' rods.”
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What's really going on
"I don't know the LORD"
When Moses first asked Pharaoh to let Israel go, Pharaoh answered, "Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know the LORD" (5:2). This chapter answers him with the same Hebrew verb, yada, "know". God says, "The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand on Egypt" (7:5). And Moses is to tell Pharaoh at the river, "In this you shall know that I am the LORD" (7:17).
Where it leads to Jesus
All that I command you
Exodus 7:2leads toJohn 12:49-50
God tells Moses, "You shall speak all that I command you" (7:2), with Aaron as his prophet (7:1). Later God promises Moses "a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him" (Deuteronomy 18:18), the prophet Peter says God raised up in Jesus (Acts 3:22-26). In Hebrew, 7:2 and Deuteronomy 18:18 use the same words for speaking "all that I command". Jesus says of himself, "I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak" (John 12:49). Jesus doesn't cite Exodus 7, so this is a reading: some hear in his words the same calling given to Moses and Aaron, to speak only what God commands; others read his words on their own.
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The rest of Exodus 7 is waiting in Favor
- Three words for a hard heart
- The same river
- The psalms remember it
- Jannes and Jambres
- Waters turned to blood, again
- 8 questions as you read
- 10 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
יָדַעyada'say ya-DA
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "know, learn to know"; Strong's: "to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing)". Pharaoh had said, "I don’t know the LORD" (5:2). In this chapter God answers with the same verb twice: "The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD" (7:5), and to Pharaoh, "In this you shall know that I am the LORD" (7:17). He had said it to Israel too: "you shall know that I am the LORD your God" (6:7).
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Exodus 7 Bible study questions
- 1Pharaoh saw the river turn to blood and "didn't even take this to heart." What is something God has shown you that you've been slow to take to heart?
- 2Moses was eighty and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh. What does that say to you about when God can use someone?
- 3God told Moses ahead of time, "Pharaoh will not listen to you," and sent him anyway. When have you kept doing or saying what was right when you expected no response?
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