Exodus 10:29

10:29 Moses said, “As you wish! I will not see your face again.”

Exodus 17:4

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


tn Heb “Thus you have spoken.”

tn This is a verbal hendiadys construction: “I will not add again [to] see.”

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

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

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).