Exodus 8:31

8:31 and the Lord did as Moses asked ¹  – he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!

Exodus 9:4

9:4 But the Lord will distinguish ²  between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing ³  will die of all that the Israelites have.”’” ⁴ 

Exodus 9:6

9:6 And the Lord did this ⁵  on the next day; ⁶  all ⁷  the livestock of the Egyptians ⁸  died, but of the Israelites’ livestock not one died.

Exodus 12:46

12:46 It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

Exodus 14:28

14:28 The water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh that was coming after the Israelites into the sea ⁹  – not so much as one of them survived! ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “according to the word of Moses” (so KJV, ASV).

² tn The verb פָּלָה (palah) in Hiphil means “to set apart, make separate, make distinct.” See also Exod 8:22 (18 HT); 11:7; 33:16.

³ tn There is a wordplay in this section. A pestilence – דֶּבֶר (dever) – will fall on Egypt’s cattle, but no thing – דָּבָר (davar) – belonging to Israel would die. It was perhaps for this reason that the verb was changed in v. 1 from “say” to “speak” (דִּבֶּר, dibber). See U. Cassuto, Exodus, 111.

⁴ tn The lamed preposition indicates possession: “all that was to the Israelites” means “all that the Israelites had.”

³ tn Heb “this thing.”

⁴ tn Heb “on the morrow.”

⁵ tn The word “all” clearly does not mean “all” in the exclusive sense, because subsequent plagues involve cattle. The word must denote such a large number that whatever was left was insignificant for the economy. It could also be taken to mean “all [kinds of] livestock died.”

⁶ tn Heb “of Egypt.” The place is put by metonymy for the inhabitants.

⁴ tn Heb “that was coming after them into the sea.” The referent of “them” (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “not was left among them as much as one.”