Study it in the app“YHWH said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your hand. But I will make his heart obstinate, and he will not let the people go.”
YHWHיְהוָהsaidוַיֹּאמֶרtoאֶלMoses,מֹשֶׁה“When you goבְּלֶכְתְּךָbackלָשׁוּבto Egypt,מִצְרַיְמָהseeרְאֵהthat you doוַעֲשִׂיתָםbeforeלִפְנֵיPharaohפַרְעֹהallכָּלthe wondersהַמֹּפְתִיםthatאֲשֶׁרI have putשַׂמְתִּיin your hand.בְיָדֶךָBut Iוַאֲנִיwill makeאֲחַזֵּקhis heartאֶת לִבּוֹobstinate,אֲחַזֵּקand he will notוְלֹאletיְשַׁלַּחthe peopleאֶת הָעָםgo.יְשַׁלַּח
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsMoses
Moses, the man God called to bring Israel out of Egypt and through whom he gave the Law. His name sounds like "draw out" (Exodus 2:10).
Where else “moshe” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lecht” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “shuv” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayma” appearsrealize
To realize: "he saw that it was good".
Where else “ree” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asita” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fene” appearsPharaoh
Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.
Where else “faro” appearswonder
An astonishing deed of God's power.
Where else “moftim” appearsput
To put something somewhere.
Where else “samti” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yade” appearsbe stubborn
To harden the heart, become stubborn.
Where else “achazek” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “lib” appearslet go
To set free, release.
Where else “yeshalach” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsExodus uses three verbs for Pharaoh’s heart: chazaq (“make strong,” here “make obstinate”), kaved (“make heavy,” here “insensitive”), and qashah (“harden”). Sometimes it says that Pharaoh himself became obstinate (7:13, 22; 8:15, 32; 9:34) and other times that YHWH made him obstinate (9:12; 10:20, 27). Paul speaks of this in Romans 9:17-18.
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
20So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on the donkey and returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the staff of Elohim in his hand.
21 · This verse (above)
22Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says YHWH: Israel is my son, my firstborn,
