Deuteronomy 26:8

26:8 Therefore the Lord brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, ¹  as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders.

Deuteronomy 34:12

34:12 and he displayed great power ²  and awesome might in view of all Israel. ³ 

Exodus 12:30-33

12:30 Pharaoh got up ⁴  in the night, ⁵  along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house ⁶  in which there was not someone dead. 12:31 Pharaoh ⁷  summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, “Get up, get out ⁸  from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the Lord as you have requested! ⁹  12:32 Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.” ¹⁰ 

12:33 The Egyptians were urging ¹¹  the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, ¹²  for they were saying, “We are all dead!”

¹ tn Heb “by a powerful hand and an extended arm.” These are anthropomorphisms designed to convey God’s tremendously great power in rescuing Israel from their Egyptian bondage. They are preserved literally in many English versions (cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

² tn Heb “strong hand.”

³ tn The Hebrew text of v. 12 reads literally, “with respect to all the strong hand and with respect to all the awesome greatness which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.”

⁴ tn Heb “arose,” the verb קוּם (qum) in this context certainly must describe a less ceremonial act. The entire country woke up in terror because of the deaths.

⁵ tn The noun is an adverbial accusative of time – “in the night” or “at night.”

⁶ sn Or so it seemed. One need not push this description to complete literalness. The reference would be limited to houses that actually had firstborn people or animals. In a society in which households might include more than one generation of humans and animals, however, the presence of a firstborn human or animal would be the rule rather than the exception.

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Pharaoh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn The urgency in Pharaoh’s words is caught by the abrupt use of the imperatives – “get up, go” (קוּמוּ צְּאוּ, qumu tsÿ’u), and “go, serve” (וּלְכוּ עִבְדוּ, ulÿkhu ’ivdu) and “take” and “leave/go” (וָלֵכוּ…קְחוּ, qÿkhu...valekhu).

⁹ tn Heb “as you have said.” The same phrase also occurs in the following verse.

¹⁰ tn The form is the Piel perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive (וּבֵרַכְתֶּם, uverakhtem); coming in the sequence of imperatives this perfect tense would be volitional – probably a request rather than a command.

¹¹ tn The verb used here (חָזַק, khazaq) is the same verb used for Pharaoh’s heart being hardened. It conveys the idea of their being resolved or insistent in this – they were not going to change.

¹² tn The phrase uses two construct infinitives in a hendiadys, the first infinitive becoming the modifier.