Geneva Bible Notes (1560): Exodus 7

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¹ ^! God hardeneth Pharaohs heart.

¹ ^a I haue giuen thee power & autoritie to speake in my name and to execute my judgements vpon him.

⁴ ^b To strengthen Moses faith, God promesth againe to punishe moste sharpely the oppression of his Church.

⁷ ^c Moses liued in afflection and banishment fourty yere before he enjoyed his office to deliuer Gods people.

⁹ ^/ Or, dragon.

¹⁰ ^! Moses and Aaron do the miracles of the serpent, and the blood: and Pharaohs sorcerers do the like.

¹¹ ^d It semeth that these were Jamnes and Jambres: read {2 Tim 3:6}: so euer the wicked maliciously resist the trueth of God.

¹⁴ ^/ Or, heauy and dul.

¹⁴ ^e To wit, the riuer Nilus.

¹⁸ ^/ Or, they shalbe weary, and abhorre to drinke.

¹⁹ ^/ The first plague.

²¹ ^f To signifie that it was a true miracle, and that God plauged them in that, which was moste necessarie for the preservation of life.

²² ^g In outward appearance, & after that the 7, daies were ended.

²³ ^/ Ebr. he set not his heart at all thereunto.