Old Testaabment - Exodus 11 - March 31, 2022

3/31/2022 – Exodus 11

The Lords speaks to Moses, saying: ”Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharoah, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.”(v 1)

In v 2, the Lord tells the Israelites to “borrow of hie neighbors…jewels, silver, and jewels of gold”. Adam Clarke, a Bible scholar, speaks of the Hebrew word ‘sha’al’, which has been translated as “borrow”. He says it is more like ‘to ask’ or ‘demand’. His feeling is that “God commanded the Israelites to ask or demand a certain recompense for their past services, and he inclined the hearts of the Egyptians to give liberally…for it was no more than a very partial recompense for the long and painful services which we may say six hundred thousand Israelites had rendered to Egypt…for the Israelites had been permitted to accumulate no kind of property, as all their gains went to their oppressors.” It’s interesting that the Egyptians seem to have been less hard-hearted than their pharaoh and more impressed with the powers of Moses. (v 3)

In v’s 5 -6 the Lord explains that this final plague will occur at midnight, that’s when “will I go out into the midst of Egypt: and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill, and all the first born of beasts. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.”

The Lord is punishing the Egyptians for their wickedness, and at the same time He is teaching the Israelites a very important lesson. But that is explained in the next chapter of Exodus….

 

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