7114V l 11'WJFUGIIA 6 Is a[lranger in Midian. L. Y o D u S 11. I9 20 2I 22 23 ,.24 25 come fo Toone, to day t And they raid, an Egyptian man, delivered us out of thehand of the fheepherds: and albo drawing drew water for us; and watered the flocke. And he laid unto his dáughters, and where is het' wherefore now, have ye left theman r call him, that he may Bate bread. And Mofes was content, to dwell with the man : and he gave Zipporah his daughter, unto Mofes. And fir barea fon, and he called his name Gerfhom : for he laid I have been a {han- ger, in a forreigne land. And it was, after thofe many daies, when the King of Egypt was dead ; and the fonnes of Ifrael fighed, for the fervitude, and cried -out; that their cry came-up unto God, for the fervitu_'e. And God heard , their groaning : and God remembred his covenant, with Abra- ham, with Ifaak and with Jakob. And God looked upon the fonnes of Ifrael: and God knew them. 2 Annotations. AMan] named Amram, the fount of Kobatb, the lònne of Levi: Exod. 6. t 6, 18,z0. To this religious family,ratber then any other,God now appeared : which mercie is remembred.in 1 Sam. 2.27. tooke]to wife, Exod.6. 20. the daughter] named Ioebebed, filler unto Kohatb, and next daughter to Levi: Aunt unto Amram her husband, Exod. 6. 20. Numb. 26. 19. So Thargum Jerulàlemie faith, He took Jochebed his Aunt, to him to wife. Such mariages with their neere kindred, were afterward forbidden, w hen the tribes and families were multiplied : Lev.18. 12. a fame] this was not their firh childe, for Marie a daughter, and Aaron a Conne, were both borne before him: Verf 4. Numb. 26. 59 Exodus 7. 7. Verf. 2. ageedf childe] or faire, proper childe, fo the Apoftle (following the Greeke verton) tranflateth it, in Hebr. 11.23. the Hebrew be- inggood, meaning in forme and beautie ; as Gen. 24. 16. and Stephen addeth,/ goodly (or faire) to God, A &.7. zo. that is, exceeding faire, or ha- ving divine beautie andgood¡ineffe t and there be of the Jew Doftors which write to the like'effe£t, that bee had the forme of an Angell ofGod: Pirki R. Ebener, chap. 48. And heathen writers make mention alío of his beautiful) perfonage, luftin. hill b. 36. This Mofes was , by the father, the feventh generation from Abraham : (as Enoch was the feventh front Adam: and Abraham the Hebrew, was the feventh front Heber :) and con- lid :ring his Miracles upon Egypt, and his Lawes unto Ifael; he may be likened to that Mancbilde, who war to rule all nations with a rod ofyron , Rev. 12. 5. fie bid] together with his father: there- fore the Greeke tranflateth, they hid. And Pares faith , faith, Motes was hid of his parents three mo- neths, becaufe they fane bee a. "at a goodly childe, and they were not afraidof the Kings commandement, Hebr. I T. 23. This hiding was in his owne Fathers hopfe, Aft. 7. zo. in the yeare from the Crea- tionòf the World, 2433. Verf 3. longer] or any more : by reafon they dwelt mixed with theEgyptians, Exo.3.22. and the Kings commandement was tirait , and dange- rous to tranfgreffe, Exod.t.zz. Hebt. 1 1.23. arks] or coin: whereof fee Gen. 6.14. Thus Mo- fes, as Noe was Caved in an arke from drowning : what that figured , fee Genef: 6. 15. &c. bul- rafbes:] a thing there growing, of which the Egyptians tiled to make light Boates and veffels to got upon the waters; Efa. 18.2. flags] or, feaweeds, or fedge: fisch as grew by that river, and in the Red -tea, and other feas, Jon. 2. 5. Hereof Ithe Red fea had the name, fee Exod. 1 o. 59. brinke] Hebr. lip. Verf 4. hit f fier] named Marie, or Miriam, of whom fee Exod. 15. zo. Numbers 26. 59, flood] or fit herfeelfeto hand and looke; or ejpied (as the Greeke tranflateth k) to ¡carne what fbould befall him. Verf.6. faro the rbilde] or, faro bim, (namely) the chide. hadcompaffon]ormercifully fßared him: fee this word, in Gen. 19. 16. Hebren "es] fo the Ifraelites were called, of Heber : fee Gen. 14.13. and 39.14. The Chaldee tsanflateth it lemes: fo'after verfe 7.11.13. &c. Verf. 7. a woman anurf]an Hebrew phrafe,the 7 word woman may in Englilh be omitted : as the word man , in verf.l I.14. See Gen.r 3.8. & 38.1. Verf. 1o.for a forme] adopted to be as her owne child, and trained up in all the wifdona oftbe Egyp- tians, Alt. 7. 21, 22. Mofe] in Hebrew Alo- fbeh ; but the Greeke of the new Teftament wrb- tech him Mofes and Moyfes, Matth. i 9.8 Mt. 7. 20, 35 37. his name hgnifieth Drawee -out What name his parents had given him before is not recorded. I drew] Hebrew , Mafithi: of this, the childe had his name : and it is not ufed againe in Scripture, but in Davide cafe. who faith of God, he drew me out oman) waters,Pfal.18, 17. waters, fignifying troubles. Verf: I s. growen great] both in yeeres , and In attthoritie, being fill fortie yeeres old: and mightie in words andin deeds, A&. 7. 12,2 3. There- fore In thole dales, may he reade, After thole' dales : as in verfe 23. went-out :] it came into hie heart to vifit hit brethren the fennel of Ifrael, A&. 7.23. and bee after this, renounced his honours and pleaftsres in Pharaohs Court, and affociated him- felCe to Gods affiitted people : for By faith, bee re- fufd to be called the Cone of Pharaohs daughter, cha- fing rather to fifer affiillion with the people of Gad, then to injoy the pieafrures of finite for a fea fn, efleeming the reproach of Chrifl, greater riches then the treafures in Egypt , for hee had reftet1 unto the recompense of the reroard, Hebr. 1 5. 24, 25,26. fart theirburdens] the Greeke tranflateth, cenfderedtheir labeler: in Chaldee, their ferzit,ede. Verfs z. 3 4 6 IO II /,f/wILYf/ll 11111Vliplgllllll//l/ /11,_
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