What Does Exodus 10:25 Mean?
And Moses said, You will also give into our hands slaughtered offerings and rising offerings, so that we may make them to the LORD our God.
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And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.THE KEY
The offering’s ascent begins with what is released into the hand.
THE MEANING
What is withheld can leave release incomplete, even when a person is permitted to go. This verse joins worship to what is placed into the hand: the offering must be provided before it can be brought. The reader’s freedom reaches into resources as well as intention.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that freedom is complete while the means to serve remain held back.
THE ROOT
תִּתֵּן
titten
GROWS FROM
נתן
To give, set, or place.
“give into our hands” in this verse is titten. The Hebrew continues, “give into our hand,” making the transfer tangible. The same root can describe placing something somewhere, so the verse’s giving is also a matter of where the needed resource is placed.
ALSO GROWS
vayitten: Set or placed.
וַיִּתֵּן
The root’s range joins giving with placing: what is given is put within reach.
mattanah: A gift.
מַתָּנָה
A gift is something placed into another’s hands, echoing the concrete transfer the verse asks for.
עֹלֹת
ʿolot
GROWS FROM
עלה
To go up or ascend.
“rising offerings” in this verse is ʿolot. The word translated “burnt offerings” is from the root for ascending. The verse holds together what is first given into the hand and what then rises as an offering.
ALSO GROWS
ʿalah: Ascend or go up.
עָלָה
This verb makes the offering’s upward movement audible within its name.
ʿolah: A burnt offering.
עֹלָה
The offering is named with the language of ascent, linking its purpose to the release that makes it possible.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משה
To draw out.
The name Moses carries the meaning “drawn out.” The drawn-out one speaks here of what must be released for worship to proceed, joining the speaker’s name to the verse’s movement toward freedom.
ALSO GROWS
mashah: Draw out.
מָשָׁה
This verb is the source of the name’s meaning and carries the image of being brought out.
Mosheh: The one drawn out.
מֹשֶׁה
The name’s nature resonates with the verse’s demand that what is held be released.
THE PATTERN
Release reaches its fullness when the resources needed for worship are released with the people.
“Take also your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go away; and bless me also.”But who am I, and what is my people, that we should hold the strength to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come from you, and from your hand have we given to you.And when they had entered the house, they perceived the young child with Mary his mother, and fell to the ground and bowed down before him. And when they had opened their treasures, they brought him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.THE THREAD
And Abraham said, "My son, God will see to the lamb himself for the rising offering." And the two of them went together.“Burnt offering” is עֹלָה (ʿolah), from עלה (ʿalah), “to ascend,” the same word family as the offerings here. This verse joins the offering’s ascent to the provision of the lamb, opening Exodus 10:25’s demand as a question of what must first be provided and released.
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