Exodus 10:6

10:6 They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as ¹  neither ²  your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been ³  in the land until this day!’” Then Moses ⁴  turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 10:14

10:14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory ⁵  of Egypt. It was very severe; ⁶  there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again. ⁷ 

¹ tn The relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher) is occasionally used as a comparative conjunction (see GKC 499 §161.b).

² tn Heb “which your fathers have not seen, nor your fathers’ fathers.”

³ tn The Hebrew construction מִיּוֹם הֱיוֹתָם (miyyom heyotam, “from the day of their being”). The statement essentially says that no one, even the elderly, could remember seeing a plague of locusts like this. In addition, see B. Childs, “A Study of the Formula, ‘Until This Day,’” JBL 82 (1963).

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “border.”

⁶ tn This is an interpretive translation. The clause simply has כָּבֵד מְאֹד (kaved mÿ’od), the stative verb with the adverb – “it was very heavy.” The description prepares for the following statement about the uniqueness of this locust infestation.

⁷ tn Heb “after them.”