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Exodus 3:10

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3:10So now go, and I will send you35 to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

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  1. 35 The verse has a sequence of volitives. The first form is the imperative לְכָה (lékha, “go”). Then comes the cohortative/imperfect form with the vav (ו), “and I will send you” or more likely “that I may send you” (וְאֶשְׁלָחֲךָ, vé’eshlakhakha), which is followed by the imperative with the vav, “and bring out” or “that you may bring out” (וְהוֹצֵא, véhotse’). The series of actions begins with Moses going. When he goes, it will be the Lord who sends him, and if the Lord sends him, it will be with the purpose of leading Israel out of Egypt. These instructions for Moses are based on the preceding revelation made to him. The deliverance of Israel was to be God’s work—hence, “I will send you.” When God commissioned people, often using the verb “to send,” it indicated that they went with his backing, his power, and his authority. Moses could not have brought Israel out without this. To name this incident a commissioning, then, means that the authority came from God to do the work (compare John 3:2).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

NLTNew Living Translation

Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you must bring my people, the Israelites, out from Egypt.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.