Ob and In:
(1) Repeated
v.7, 9 about the seeing, and hearing of the affliction of "my people."
In v.8, the action God took for the received information was to coming down to deliver them and to bring them up to the Promised land.
While in v.10, after God came down, His conclusion is to send Moses to bring His people out. In other words, Moses was the tool in God's hand to finish His ministry.
(NET) The deliverance of Israel was to be God’s work—hence, “I will send you.” When God commissioned people, often using the verb “to send,” it indicated that they went with his backing, his power, and his authority. Moses could not have brought Israel out without this. To name this incident a commissioning, then, means that the authority came from God to do the work (compare John 3:2).
(EBC) The call of Moses comes to a double conclusion in vv.9–10 with the phrase “And/so now” (see Notes). Verse 9 essentially repeats v.7 by summarizing the preceding speech and by restating the grounds on which this divine call is issued: viz., Israel’s present need and God’s solution. Verse 10, however, is the bottom line to the whole incident of the burning bush: it is the formal commissioning of Moses as God’s emissary to lead Israel out of Egypt.
(2) The 3 descriptions of the land:
A. (NET) The land to which they are going is both good (in terms of quality) and large (in terms of size).
B. (EBC) It was a “land flowing with milk and honey” in that the sheep and goats gave the milk while the nectar of the vine and the work of the bees added more delectables, and those in abundance.
(NET) The land is modified by “flowing,” and “flowing” is explained by the genitives “milk and honey.” These two products will be in abundance in the land, and they therefore exemplify what a desirable land it is. The language is hyperbolic, as if the land were streaming with these products.
C. (EBC) it was spacious because six nations (or in some parallel lists, ten...) were living there; but Israel would possess it all.
Reflection: God had a plan for Israel which would transfer them from affliction/suffering to the good land that He promised. However, this mission involved with a person who would be willing to go and took up the commission. God promised to be with him, with the saying, "I send you." Do I see the suffering of the people? Do I realize the good of the salvation? Am I willing to go and see the promise of God in the difficult times?
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