Verse 5
And say unto them, thus saith the Lord God ,.... Here begins the account of their fathers; of God's unmerited goodness to them, and of their sins and transgressions against him, and how it fared with them:
in the day when I chose Israel ; to be his peculiar people, above all people on the face of the earth; when he declared his choice of them, and made it appear that he had chosen them, and distinguished them, by special blessings and favours bestowed on them:
and lifted up mine hand to the seed of the house of Jacob ; the posterity of Jacob or Israel, to whom the Lord swore that he would do such and such things for them; of which the lifting up the hand was a token; it is a gesture used in swearing, Daniel 12:7 ; and so the Targum,
"and I swore unto them by my word:'
and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt : by his name Jehovah; by the prophets he sent unto them, Moses, Aaron, and Miriam; and by the miracles he wrought among them:
when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the Lord your God : making promise of it, declaring it unto them, confirming it with an oath; see Hebrews 6:17 .
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