The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 4:17

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Thou shalt take this rod. Not any rod, but the particular one which had already once become a serpent. Wherewith thou shalt do signs. Rather, "the signs," i.e. the signs which thou wilt have to do, as already declared in Exodus 3:20. It is quite gratuitous to suppose that God had already particularised them

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