11:4 Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight 1 I will go throughout Egypt, 2
1 tn Heb “about the middle of the night.”
2 tn Heb “I will go out in the midst of Egypt.”
3 tn The clause literally reads, “and the waters [were] for them a wall.” The word order in Hebrew is disjunctive, with the vav (ו) on the noun introducing a circumstantial clause.
5 sn These bars served as reinforcements to hold the upright frames together. The Hebrew term for these bars is also used of crossbars on gates (Judg 16:3; Neh 3:3).