God outlines the Exodus in a sequence of verbs that the sages will later count as the Arba Leshonot Shel Geulah — the Four Expressions of Redemption. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan preserves them carefully: I will bring you forth from the oppressive bondage of the Mizraee, and will deliver you from your servitude, and save you with an uplifted arm, and by great judgments.
Count them. Bring forth. Deliver. Save. Judge. Four distinct verbs, four distinct stages. Later Jewish liturgy will encode these four expressions in the four cups of wine drunk on Passover (Yerushalmi Pesachim 10:1). Every Jew who has ever held a Seder cup has held one of these verbs.
Each Verb a Different Layer
The Targum's Aramaic intensifies each stage. Oppressive bondage — not just slavery, but the heaviest kind. Uplifted arm — bizerua ramema, the posture of a warrior-king. Great judgments — the plagues, the splitting of the sea, the drowning of the chariots.
The sages of the Targumic tradition see the four expressions as progressive liberations. First, remove the physical burden. Second, end the slave status. Third, demonstrate divine power so that Israel understands who rescued them. Fourth, punish the oppressor so that history remembers the cost of tyranny.
This is the Jewish theology of redemption in miniature. Liberation is not one event but a layered process. Physical release is necessary but not sufficient. Dignity must also be restored. Power must also be displayed. Justice must also be executed.
The takeaway: the Passover Seder is built on the scaffolding of this verse. Every cup lifted is one of these verbs enacted. The Jewish imagination insists that redemption is not a door you walk through once. It is a sequence you drink slowly, one expression at a time, until the taste of freedom has worked its way into every layer of what it means to be human.