--- title: "Bullinger" description: "the LORD (Hebrew. Jehovah) said. See note on Exodus 3:7 , and compare note on Exodus 6:10 , and see App-4 . God spake . Occurs only twice in Exodus: he" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/exodus/6" --- **the LORD** (Hebrew. *Jehovah)* said. See note on [Exodus 3:7](../../../kjv/exodus/3/7) , and compare note on [Exodus 6:10](../../../kjv/exodus/6/10) , and see App-4 . **God spake** . Occurs only twice in Exodus: here, and 20. See notes on [Exodus 3:7](../../../kjv/exodus/3/7) with [Exodus 6:10](../../../kjv/exodus/6/10) . **God** . Hebrew. *Elohim* . App-4 . **the LORD** = *Jehovah* . Note the repetition five times in this revelation, verses: [Exodus 6:2](../../../kjv/exodus/6/2) , [Exodus 6:3](../../../kjv/exodus/6/3) , [Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) , [Exodus 2:7](../../../kjv/exodus/2/7) , [Exodus 2:8](../../../kjv/exodus/2/8) , and see App-10 . **known** . Hebrew = perceived or understood. The *name* Jehovah was known as the covenant name; but was not known so as to be understood. The Ellipsis may be better supplied "in [the character of] *El Shaddai. "* Compare [Exodus 7:5](../../../kjv/exodus/7/5) . **I have.** Note the three repetitions in verses: [Exodus 6:4](../../../kjv/exodus/6/4) , [Exodus 6:5](../../../kjv/exodus/6/5) . See App-10 . **them** = individually (see on [Genesis 50:24](../../../kjv/genesis/50/24) ). This is why this revelation of Jehovah as "the God of the living" ensures their resurrection. See [Exodus 3:6](../../../kjv/exodus/3/6) , and compare [Deuteronomy 11:2](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/11/2) . **pilgrimage** . They "sojourned "in Canaan, and they "dwelt" in Egypt. **also** . Read "I also have:" i.e. as well as thou. **children** = sons. **remembered My covenant** . All Israel's blessings based on this. See [Exodus 2:24](../../../kjv/exodus/2/24) . **and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* ( App-6 ) in verses: [Exodus 6:6-8](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6-8) , to emphasise every detail. Compare [Deuteronomy 7:8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/7/8) . **I will.** Note the sevenfold blessing in verses: [Exodus 6:6-8](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6-8) and compare the sevenfold promise in [Genesis 12:2](../../../kjv/genesis/12/2) , [Genesis 12:3](../../../kjv/genesis/12/3) . See App-10 . redeem. Hebrew. *g'aal = to* redeem (from charge, by payment). First occurance in connection with Israel. Not *padah.* See note on [Exodus 13:13](../../../kjv/exodus/13/13) . **swear** . Hebrew "I lifted up mine hand". Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct). App-6 . Act put for the thing accompanying it: rightly rendered "swear". The Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia* is also involved in it. **spirit** . Hebrew. *ruach.* See App-9 . **the LORD spake** = Jehovah spake (Hebrew. *davar).* This expression occurs in Ex. twenty "sundry times "and in seven "divers manners "(see App-10 ). Compare note on [Exodus 3:7](../../../kjv/exodus/3/7) . [Leviticus 1](../../../kjv/leviticus/1) .[Numbers 1](../../../kjv/numbers/1) . (1) To Moses alone; [Exodus 13:1](../../../kjv/exodus/13/1) ; [Exodus 30:11](../../../kjv/exodus/30/11) , [Exodus 30:17](../../../kjv/exodus/30/17) , [Exodus 30:22](../../../kjv/exodus/30/22) , [Exodus 30:34](../../../kjv/exodus/30/34) ; [Exodus 31:1](../../../kjv/exodus/31/1) ; [Exodus 33:11](../../../kjv/exodus/33/11) ; Exo 33:40 . (2) To Moses to speak to Aaron, [Exodus 7:19](../../../kjv/exodus/7/19) ; [Exodus 8:5](../../../kjv/exodus/8/5) . (3) To Moses to speak to the children of Israel, [Exodus 6:14](../../../kjv/exodus/6/14) ; [Exodus 16:11](../../../kjv/exodus/16/11) (Compare [Exodus 6:12](../../../kjv/exodus/6/12) ); 25.; [Exodus 31:12](../../../kjv/exodus/31/12) . (4) To Moses to speak to Pharaoh, [Exodus 6:10](../../../kjv/exodus/6/10) (Compare [Exodus 6:11](../../../kjv/exodus/6/11) , [Exodus 29:8](../../../kjv/exodus/29/8) ). (5) To Moses and unto Aaron, [Exodus 7:8](../../../kjv/exodus/7/8) . (6) To Moses and Aaron to speak to the congregation of Israel, [Exodus 6:12](../../../kjv/exodus/6/12) . (7) To Moses and Aaron to give a charge to the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh, [Exodus 6:13](../../../kjv/exodus/6/13) . **Moses and Aaron** shown to be the crown of the previous pedigrees. They gather the "heads" who are to speak to Pharaoh, [Exodus 6:27](../../../kjv/exodus/6/27) . **Levi died twenty** = three years after Joseph, forty-one years before Moses. **Jochebed** . See note on [Numbers 26:59](../../../kjv/numbers/26/59) . **Elkanah** . The ancestor of Samuel. Compare [1 Samuel 1:1-24](../../../kjv/1-samuel/1/1-24) and [Numbers 26:11](../../../kjv/numbers/26/11) , &c. **Aaron and Moses** . The order according to age and genealogy. Compare [Exodus 6:27](../../../kjv/exodus/6/27) . **Pharaoh king of Egypt** . See App-37 . **Moses and Aaron** . The order according to God's choice. Compare [Exodus 6:26](../../../kjv/exodus/6/26) . **the LORD** (Hebrew. *Jehovah.* spake. 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