TBESH · H9005
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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/ל (l) means “to/for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: l STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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Page 18 of 241. 12010 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.
Read word by wordThen Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
Read word by wordThe LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
Read word by wordand I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”
Read word by wordBut Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
Read word by wordSo the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)
Read word by wordMeanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
Read word by wordAnd Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and all the signs He had commanded him to perform.
Read word by wordand Aaron relayed everything the LORD had said to Moses. And Moses performed the signs before the people,
Read word by wordAfter that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
Read word by wordBut Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
Read word by word“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
Read word by wordBut the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”
Read word by wordThat same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:
Read word by word“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
Read word by wordBut require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
Read word by wordSo the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.
Read word by wordGo and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
Read word by wordSo the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
Read word by wordThe taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
Read word by wordThen the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”
Read word by wordSo the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
Read word by wordNo straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
Read word by word“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
Read word by wordNow get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
Read word by wordThe Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
Read word by wordWhen they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.
Read word by word“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!”
Read word by wordSo Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me?
Read word by wordEver since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You have not delivered Your people in any way.”
Read word by wordBut the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand he will let the people go; because of My strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
Read word by wordI appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.
Read word by wordI also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
Read word by wordTherefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
Read word by wordI 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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!’”
Read word by wordSo the LORD said to Moses,
Read word by wordBut in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
Read word by wordThen the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
Read word by wordThese were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
Read word by wordThe sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.
Read word by wordThe sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites according to their records.
Read word by wordAnd Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
Read word by wordAnd Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Read word by wordAaron’s son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families by their clans.
Read word by wordIt was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”
Read word by wordMoses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
Read word by wordHe said to him, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”
Read word by wordBut in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
Read word by wordThe LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
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