33:1 The Lord said to Moses, “Go up 2 from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath 3 to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ 4
1 sn This military term is used elsewhere in Exodus (e.g., 6:26; 7:4; 12:17, 50), but here the Israelites are called “the regiments of the Lord.”
2 tn The two imperatives underscore the immediacy of the demand: “go, go up,” meaning “get going up” or “be on your way.”
3 tn Or “the land which I swore.”
4 tn Heb “seed.”