Also I will [a]take you for my people, and will be your God: then ye shall know that I the Lord your God bring you out from the burdens of the Egyptians.

And I will bring you into the land which I [b]sware that I would give to Abraham, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it unto you for a possession: I am the Lord.

¶ So Moses told the children of Israel thus: but they hearkened [c]not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 6:7 He meaneth, as touching the outward vocation, the dignity whereof they lost afterward by their rebellion: but as for election to life everlasting, it is immutable.
  2. Exodus 6:8 Hebrew, Lift up mine hand.
  3. Exodus 6:9 So hard a thing it is to show true obedience under the cross.

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