Text -- Numbers 14:13 (NET)

14:13 Moses said to the Lord, “When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Num 14:13

¹ tn The construction is unusual in that we have here a perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive with no verb before it to establish the time sequence. The context requires that this be taken as a vav (ו) consecutive. It actually forms the protasis for the next verse, and would best be rendered “when…then they will say.”