Exodus 11:6

11:6 There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, ¹  nor ever will be again. ² 

Exodus 12:30

12:30 Pharaoh got up ³  in the night, ⁴  along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house ⁵  in which there was not someone dead.

¹ tn Heb “which like it there has never been.”

² tn Heb “and like it it will not add.”

³ 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.

⁴ tn The noun is an adverbial accusative of time – “in the night” or “at night.”

⁵ 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.