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The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. See also: Exodus 4:15-16Psalms 82:6John 10:35-36You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. See also: Exodus 4:15Deuteronomy 4:2Matthew 28:20I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. See also: Exodus 4:21Exodus 11:9Psalms 105:27-36But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. See also: Exodus 6:6Exodus 11:9Exodus 12:51The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.” See also: Exodus 14:18Exodus 8:22Exodus 7:17Moses and Aaron did so. As the LORD commanded them, so they did. See also: Exodus 7:2Genesis 6:22Exodus 7:10Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh. See also: Deuteronomy 34:7Deuteronomy 31:2Acts 7:23The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’” See also: Isaiah 7:11John 2:18Exodus 4:2Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as the LORD had commanded. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. See also: Exodus 4:3Mark 16:18Luke 10:19Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments. See also: Exodus 7:22Exodus 8:72 Timothy 3:8For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. See also: 1 John 4:4Exodus 9:11Exodus 8:18-19Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken. See also: Exodus 4:21Exodus 8:15Zechariah 7:11-12The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go. See also: Exodus 10:20Exodus 10:27Exodus 8:15Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him. You shall take the rod which was turned to a serpent in your hand. See also: Exodus 8:20Exodus 2:5Exodus 7:10You shall tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. Behold, until now you haven’t listened.” See also: Exodus 3:18Exodus 9:1Exodus 9:13The LORD says, “In this you shall know that I am the LORD. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. See also: Exodus 4:9Exodus 7:5Exodus 5:2The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.”’” See also: Exodus 7:24Exodus 7:21Numbers 21:5The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’” See also: Exodus 14:21Exodus 14:26Exodus 10:12Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. See also: Psalms 78:44Psalms 105:29John 2:9-11The fish that were in the river died. The river became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river. The blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. See also: Exodus 7:18Revelation 8:9The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken. See also: Exodus 7:11Exodus 8:7-82 Timothy 3:8Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart. See also: Proverbs 24:32Psalms 62:101 Samuel 4:20All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water. Seven days were fulfilled, after the LORD had struck the river. See also: Exodus 8:9-102 Samuel 24:13Exodus 10:23
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)9 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Exodus 7:1
Ver. 1. The God of Pharao, viz. to be his Judge; and to exercise a divine power, as God's instrument, over him and people. Ch. --- Artapanus says, Moses was afterwards adored by the Egyptians. --- Prophet, or interpreter. Thou shalt reveal my orders to him. C. --- Moses participated in the divine nature, as judge, priest, prophet, &c. W.
↑ 1Exodus 7:3
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 3. I shall harden, &c.; not by being the efficient cause of his hardness of heart, but by permitting it; and by withdrawing grace from him, in punishment of his malice; which alone was the proper cause of his being hardened. Ch. ---
He took occasion even from the miracles to become more obdurate. H. --- Yet Pharao was less impious than Calvin, for he takes the sin to himself. C. ix. 27.
T.
↑ 3Exodus 7:10
Ver. 10. Took, or "threw down," as the Heb. and Sept. read.
↑ 10Exodus 7:11
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 11. Magicians. Jannes and Mambres, or Jambres. 2 Tim. iii. 8. Ch. --- The pagans represented Moses as the greatest of magicians. (Plin. xxx. 1. Justin xxxvi. --- They also, &c.
Heb. has three terms, "wise men, diviners, and magicians;" but the two last seem to be of the same import. "The enchanters did the like by their secret practices," either by words or by actions. Some say these operations were real; others affirm they were only apparent, and mere delusions. C. ---
"Whoever believes that any thing can be made, or any creature changed or transmuted into another species or appearance, except by the Creator himself, is undoubtedly an infidel, and worse than a pagan." Coun. of Orange. See S.
Aug. q. 21, de Trin. iii. 7.; S. Tho. ii.
2. 9. 17. a 2. --- The devil deceived the senses of the beholders; or brought real serpents, &c.
thither. M.
↑ 11Exodus 7:12
Ver. 12. Devoured. Thus the superiority remained with Aaron. The rod was then restored to its pristine form, v. 15. H.
↑ 12Exodus 7:17
Ver. 17. My hand. The rod was in the hand of Moses, but he was God's agent.
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↑ 17Exodus 7:18
Ver. 18. River. The Samaritan copy repeats here the very words of God to Pharao, as the other speeches are also twice put at length. "Moses and Aaron went to meet Pharao, and said to him,
'The Lord,'" &c. as v. 16. 18. See C. xi. 7. C. --- This is very agreeable to the style of Homer; and Kennicott believes that the repetitions have been omitted in the Hebrew for brevity's sake, (Diss. 1 Chron. p. 383,) and that before the Greek version had been made. H.
↑ 18Exodus 7:21
Ver. 21. All the land, even in that of Gessen, which belonged to the Egyptians; while the Hebrews had good water. M.
↑ 21Exodus 7:22
Ver. 22. Like. They got a small quantity of water, either from the sea, from Gessen, (Wisd. xi. 5,) or by digging wells, v. 24. C. --- This plague lasted a full week, v. 25. The water which they found in the mean time in the wells was mixed with blood, Philo. S. Aug. in Ps. lxxvii. Wisdom xi. 7, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.
↑ 22License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses