Text -- Exodus 17:4 (NET)

17:4 Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 17:4

¹ tn The preposition lamed (ל) is here specification, meaning “with respect to” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 49, §273).

² tn Or “they are almost ready to stone me.”

³ tn The perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive almost develops an independent force; this is true in sentences where it follows an expression of time, as here (see GKC 334 §112.x).