1 tn Or “fathers.”
2 tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).
3 tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
4 tn Heb “from the day.”
5 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”