Sermon Tone Analysis
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GOD IS SOVEREIGN
5:1: THUS SAYS YHWH – ANE FORMULA FOR COMMANDS OF A DEITY
NOTICE THE MISSING ELDERS!
ANE WORK LISTS REVEAL THAT WORKERS HAD DAYS OFF INCLUDING FOR WORSHIP OF A GOD
NOTICE MOSES AND AARON DO NOT DO EXACTLY WHAT GOD COMMANDED.
INSTEAD OF ASKING THEY COMMAND.
5:2: CONTRAST TO EX 3.11 – MOSES SAYS WHO AM I? PHAROAH SAYS WHO IS YHWH?
DOES NOT KNOW = DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE YHWH’S POWER AND AUTHORITY
“I WILL NOT SEND ISRAEL OUT” IS THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE NEGATIVE IN HEB.
5:3: PLAGUE AND THE SWORD WILL FALL UPON PHAROAH & THE EGYPTIANS NOT ISRAEL
5:4: GET BACK TO YOUR BURDENS IS A ROYAL DECREE – GO/GET IS AN IMPERATIVE
5:5: BEHOLD THE PEOPLE ARE MANY: THIS PHAROAH IS NOT AFRAID HE IS PROUD!
REST = šābăt WHICH SABBATH IS DERIVED FROM.
YHWH IS THE ANTITHESIS OF PHAROAH
5:6-7: TASKMASTERS = EGYPTIAN WARDENS FOREMEN = ISRAELITE OVERSEERS
PHAROAH REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE YHWH – CALLS HIM GENERIC EL
HEAVIER WORK = HARDENED = GLORY
5:10: THUS SAYS = DIVINE FORMULA à 5:1 CONTRAST
5:13: URGENT = PRESSED: TO HASTEN OR HURRY = FRANTIC
5:14: TASK = QUOTA THE EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THEY WERE OWED THE HEBREWS LABOR
5:15 – YOUR SERVANTS (3X) THE FOREMAN ARE SHOWING THEIR DEVOTION AND LOYALTY TO PHAROAH
5:18: GO NOW AND WORK/SERVE CONTRAST MOSES LET US GO AND WORSHIP
WHO WILL THE ISRAELITES SERVE?
5:19: TROUBLE = EVIL = rā‘.
ALLUSION TO EGYPTIAN GOD RA = PHAROAH
5:20: MET = CONFRONT/ASSAIL/ATTACK
5:21: LIT.
YOU HAVE CAUSED OUR SMELL TO STINK!
SWORD —> 5:3
5:22: EVIL = rā‘.
6:1: STRONG HAND
DRIVE OUT = SAME VERB OF MOSES DRIVING OUT SHEPHERDS = GERSHOM’S NAME
6:2: I AM YHWH OPENS AND CLOSES VS. 2-8.
ROYAL FORMULA USED BY KINGS/GODS IN ANE
6:3: “I am the Lord, I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and to Jacob as El Shaddai and my name is YHWH.
Did I not make myself known to them?”
6:4-5: BOTH BEGIN WITH HEB PARTICLE “AND ALSO” TO PROVIDE EMPHASIS
6:6-8: THEREFORE INTRODUCES A DIVINE COMMAND THE IMPERATIVE “SAY TO THE CHILDREN..”
SEVEN VERBS OF WHAT YHWH WILL DO:
1.
I WILL BRING YOU OUT
2. I WILL FREE YOU
3. I WILL REDEEM YOU
4. I WILL TAKE YOU TO ME AS A PEOPLE
5. I WILL BE TO YOUR GOD
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I WILL BRING YOU INTO THE LAND
7. I WILL GIVE IT TO YOU
BROKEN SPIRIT = SHORTNESS OF BREATH
HARSH = HARD/HEAVY
JESUS IS THE STRONG ARM/HAND OF YHWH
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