Keluaran 11:7

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi kepada siapa juga dari orang Israel, seekor anjingpun tidak akan berani menggonggong, baik kepada manusia maupun kepada binatang, supaya kamu mengetahui, bahwa TUHAN membuat perbedaan antara orang Mesir dan orang Israel.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi kepada siapa juga dari orang Israel, seekor anjingpun tidak akan berani menggonggong, baik kepada manusia maupun kepada binatang, supaya kamu mengetahui, bahwa TUHAN membuat perbedaan antara orang Mesir dan orang Israel.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
tetapi di antara segala bani Israel seekor anjingpun tiada akan bergerak lidahnya dan tiada akan binasa, baik manusia baik binatang, maka ia itu supaya diketahui olehmu, bahwa Tuhan memperbedakan antara orang Mesir dengan orang Israel.

Contextual Overview

⁴ And Moyses sayde, Thus sayth the Lorde: At mydnyght, wyll I go out into the myddest of Egypt, ⁵ And all the first borne in all the land of Egypt shall dye, euen fro the first borne of Pharao that sytteth on his seate, vnto the first borne of the mayde seruaunt that is behynde the myll, and all the first gendred of the cattell. ⁶ And there shalbe a great crye throughout all the lande of Egypt, such as there was neuer none lyke, nor shalbe. ⁷ But amongst the chyldren of Israel shal not a dogge moue his tounge, from a man vnto a beast: that ye may knowe how that the Lord putteth a difference betweene the Egyptians and Israel. ⁸ And these thy seruauntes shal al come downe vnto me, and fall before me, and say: Get thee out, and all the people that are vnder thee, and then wyll I depart. And he went out from Pharao with an angry countenaunce. ⁹ And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Pharao shall not heare you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ And Moyses and Aaron dyd all these wonders before Pharao: And the Lord hardened Pharaos heart, so that he woulde not let the chyldren of Israel go out of his lande.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

dog: Joshua 10:21, Job 5:16

a difference: Exodus 7:22, Exodus 10:23, Malachi 3:18, 1 Corinthians 4:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:44 - lift up his hand Exodus 8:22 - sever Exodus 9:26 - General Exodus 15:16 - still Psalms 8:2 - still Psalms 107:42 - iniquity Lamentations 3:46 - have Acts 28:21 - We

Cross-References

Genesis 1:26
God saide: let vs make man in our image, after our lykenesse, and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea, & of the foule of the ayre, and of cattell, & of all the earth, and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth.

Genesis 3:22
And the Lorde God sayde: Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, in knowing good and euyll: And now lest peraduenture he put foorth his hande, and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate, and lyue for euer.

Genesis 10:5
Of these were the Iles of the gentiles deuided in their landes, euery one after his tongue, and after his kinrede, in their nations.

Genesis 10:20
These are the children of Ham in their kinredes, in their tongues, countreys, and in their nations.

Genesis 10:32
And so these are the kinredes of the chyldren of Noah after their generations in their peoples: and of these were the nations deuided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 11:2
And when they went foorth from the east, they founde a playne in the lande of Sinar, and there they abode.

Genesis 11:4
And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:5
But the Lorde came downe to see the citie and towre whiche the chyldren of men buylded.

Genesis 11:11
And Sem liued after he begat Arphaxad fiue hundreth yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 11:12
Arphaxad liued fiue and thirtie yeres, and begat Selah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast,.... That is, as no hurt should be done to man or beast among them, to the firstborn of either of them, so there would be no noise or cry in their dwellings, but the profoundest silence, stillness, and quietness among them; though this is generally understood of what would be their case when on their march departing out of Egypt, which was immediately upon the slaying of the firstborn; and, if literally understood, it was a very extraordinary thing that a dog, which barks at the least noise that is made, especially in the night, yet not one should move his tongue or bark, or rather "sharpen" u his tongue, snarl and grin, when 600,000 men, besides women and children, with their flocks and herds, set out on their journey, and must doubtless march through many places where dogs were, before they came to the Red sea; though it may also be interpreted figuratively, that not an Egyptian, though ever so spiteful and malicious, and ill disposed to the children of Israel, should offer to do any hurt either to the Israelites or their cattle, or exclaim against them on account of the slaughter of their firstborn, or say one word against their departure, or attempt to stop them, but on the contrary would hasten their going, and be urgent for it:

that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel; by preserving them and theirs, when the firstborn of Egypt were destroyed, and by causing stillness and quietness among them when there was an hideous outcry and doleful lamentation among the Egyptians; and by bringing Israel quietly out from among them, none offering to give the least molestation.

u לא יחרץ non acuet, Noldius, p. 517. No. 1471. so Jarchi.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall not a dog move his tongue - A proverb expressive of freedom from alarm and immunity front assault.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 11:7. Not a dog move his tongue — This passage has been generally understood as a proverbial expression, intimating that the Israelites should not only be free from this death, but that they should depart without any kind of molestation. For though there must be much bustle and comparative confusion in the sudden removal of six hundred thousand persons with their wives, children, goods, cattle, c., yet this should produce so little alarm that even the dogs should not bark at them, which it would be natural to expect, as the principal stir was to be about midnight.

After giving this general explanation from others, I may be permitted to hazard a conjecture of my own. And,

1. Is it not probable that the allusion is here made to a well-known custom of dogs howling when any mortality is in a village, street, or even house, where such animals are? There are innumerable instances of the faithful house-dog howling when a death happens in a family, as if distressed on the account, feeling for the loss of his benefactor but their apparent presaging such an event by their cries, as some will have it, may be attributed, not to any prescience, but to the exquisite keenness of their scent. If the words may be understood in this way, then the great cry through the whole land of Egypt may refer to this very circumstance: as dogs were sacred among them, and consequently religiously preserved, they must have existed in great multitudes.

2. We know that one of their principal deities was Osiris, whose son, worshipped under the form of a dog, or a man with a dog's head, was called Anubis latrator, the barking Anubis. May he not be represented as deploring a calamity which he had no power to prevent among his worshippers, nor influence to inflict punishment upon those who set his deity at naught? Hence while there was a great cry, צעקה גדלה tseakah gedolah, throughout all the land of Egypt, because of the mortality in every house, yet among the Israelites there was no death, consequently no dog moved his tongue to howl for their calamity; nor could the object of the Egyptians' worship inflict any similar punishment on the worshippers of Jehovah.

In honour of this dog-god there was a city called Anubis in Egypt, by the Greeks called Cynopolis, the city of the dog, the same that is now called Menich; in this he had a temple, and dogs, which were sacred to him, were here fed with consecrated victuals.

Thus, as in the first plagues their magicians were confounded, so in this last their gods were put to flight. And may not this be referred to in Exodus 12:12, when Jehovah says: Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment? Should it be objected, that to consider the passage in this light would be to acknowledge the being and deity of the fictitious Anubis, it may be answered, that in the sacred writings it is not an uncommon thing to see the idol acknowledged in order to show its nullity, and the more forcibly to express contempt for it, for its worshippers, and for its worship. Thus Isaiah represents the Babylonish idols as being endued with sense, bowing down under the judgments of God, utterly unable to help themselves or their worshippers, and being a burden to the beasts that carried them:

BEL boweth down, NEBO stoopeth; their idols were upon the beasts and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy laden; they are a burden to the weary beast. THEY stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity; Isaiah 46:1-2. The case of Elijah and the prophets of Baal should not be forgotten here; this prophet, by seeming to acknowledge the reality of Baal's being, though by a strong irony, poured the most sovereign contempt upon him, his worshippers, and his worship: And Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; FOR HE IS A GOD: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked; 1 Kings 18:27. See the observations at the end of chap. xii. Exodus 12:51; Exodus 12:51.

The Lord doth put a difference — See on Exodus 8:22. Exodus 8:22; Exodus 8:22. And for the variations between the Hebrew and Samaritan Pentateuch in this place, see at the end of the chapter. Exodus 11:9; Exodus 11:9.