The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 4:18

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

My brethren probably means here "my relations" (compare Genesis 13:8; Genesis 29:12). Moses could scarcely doubt but that some of his countrymen were still living. It would not have been for the interest of the Egyptians to exterminate them.

Go in peace means, "you have my leave—I do not oppose your going."

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