29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
29 And Moses H4872 and Aaron H175 went H3212 and gathered together H622 all the elders H2205 of the children H1121 of Israel: H3478
29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
29 And Moses goeth -- Aaron also -- and they gather all the elders of the sons of Israel,
29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the children of Israel;
29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:
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Commentary on Exodus 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
This chapter,
Exd 4:1-9
It was a very great honour that Moses was called to when God commissioned him to bring Israel out of Egypt; yet he is with difficulty persuaded to accept the commission, and does it at last with great reluctance, which we should rather impute to a humble diffidence of himself and his own sufficiency than to any unbelieving distrust of God and his word and power. Note, Those whom God designs for preferment he clothes with humility; the most fit for service are the least forward.
Exd 4:10-17
Moses still continues backward to the service for which God had designed him, even to a fault; for now we can no longer impute it to his humility and modesty, but must own that here was too much of cowardice, slothfulness, and unbelief in it. Observe here,
Exd 4:18-23
Here,
Exd 4:24-31
Moses is here going to Egypt, and we are told,