Text -- Exodus 23:25 (NET)

23:25 You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 23:25

¹ tn The perfect tense, masculine plural, with vav (ו) consecutive is in sequence with the preceding: do not bow down to them, but serve Yahweh. It is then the equivalent of an imperfect of instruction or injunction.

² tn The LXX reads “and I will bless” to make the verb conform with the speaker, Yahweh.

³ sn On this unusual clause B. Jacob says that it is the reversal of the curse in Genesis, because the “bread and water” represent the field work and ground suitability for abundant blessing of provisions (Exodus, 734).