1. Exode 6:7 (NEG79)
  2. Explication du texte

What is the meaning of “to know”?

Exode 6:7 (NEG79)

7 Je vous prendrai pour mon peuple, je serai votre Dieu, et vous saurez que c'est moi, l'Eternel, votre Dieu, qui vous affranchis des travaux dont vous chargent les Egyptiens.

In the Bible, to know is more than to understand with your brain. It often points to a relationship. To know God means that you spend time with him. The opposite is also true: that when, in the time of the judges, it is said that the people forgot the Lord their God (Judges 3:7), it does not mean that he was gone from their minds, but that they just ignored him.

To know God means that you entrust yourself in faith to him.