1st Corinthians Chapter 10 verse 2 Holy Bible
and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
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And they all had baptism from Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
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and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
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And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
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and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
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and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Were all baptized. This reading, though well supported, may, perhaps, be a correction for the middle, "they baptized themselves," i.e. accepted baptism. The passing under the cloud (Exodus 14:19) and through the sea, constituting as it did their deliverance from bondage into freedom, their death to Egypt, and their birth to a new covenant, was a general type or dim shadow of Christian baptism (compare our collect, "figuring thereby thy holy baptism"). But the typology is quite incidental; it is the moral lesson which is paramount. Unto Moses; rather, into. By this "baptism" they accepted Moses as their Heaven-seat guide and teacher.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Were all baptized unto Moses.--The weight of evidence is in favour of the middle voice for the verb here used; signifying that they all voluntarily had themselves baptised to Moses. Moses was God's representative under the Law, and so they were baptised unto him in their voluntarily joining with that "Church" of God which marched beneath the shadow of the cloud, and passed through the waters of the sea--as Christians, are baptised unto Jesus Christ,--He being (in a higher sense both in kind and in degree) God's representative in the New Dispensation.The "cloud" and the "sea" refer to the cloud that overshadowed the Israelites (Exodus 13:21, and see Numbers 14:14), and the passage through the Red Sea (Exodus 13:22; Numbers 35:8).