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Exodus 6:9

Exodus 6:9 is verse 9 of Exodus chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.

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King James Version

And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

World English Bible

Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

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Exodus 6:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

8 And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”

9 Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.

10 So the LORD said to Moses,

11 “Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”

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Hebrew words

וַיְדַבֵּ֥רand he spoke מֹשֶׁ֛הMoses כֵּ֖ןthus אֶלto בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael וְלֹ֤אand not שָֽׁמְעוּ֙they listened אֶלto מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses מִקֹּ֣צֶרfrom shortness of ר֔וּחַspirit וּמֵעֲבֹדָ֖הand from labor קָשָֽׁהhard

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 5:21
“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”

Exodus 14:12
Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Job 21:4
Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

Proverbs 14:19
The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Numbers 21:4
Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey

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