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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"I will rid you out of their bondage" (Exodus 6:6) sounds like God is planning to get rid of the Israelites, like discarding something unwanted.
'Rid' in Exodus 6:6 means to rescue or deliver someone, not to discard or eliminate them.
Exodus 6:6, in every translation this tool compares.
God's promise in Exodus 6:6 reads, "I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm." "Rid" is paired with "bring out" and "redeem," all pointing the same direction: freeing Israel from slavery. It means "to free from" something, the way you'd still say "we're finally rid of that problem": the trouble is removed from the person, not the person removed.
Read too quickly, "rid you out of their bondage" can sound like God is going to get rid of the Israelites themselves, when the whole verse is a rescue promise: he's stripping the bondage away from them, not discarding them.
