Exodus 1:7

1:7 The Israelites, ¹  however, ²  were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, ³  so that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 5:5

5:5 Pharaoh was thinking, ⁴  “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

Exodus 12:33

12:33 The Egyptians were urging ⁵  the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, ⁶  for they were saying, “We are all dead!”

Exodus 23:30

23:30 Little by little ⁷  I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

[1:7]  ¹ tn Heb “the sons of Israel.”

[1:7]  ² tn The disjunctive vav marks a contrast with the note about the deaths of the first generation.

[1:7]  ³ tn Using מְאֹד (mÿ’od) twice intensifies the idea of their becoming strong (see GKC 431-32 §133.k).

[5:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “And Pharaoh said.” This is not the kind of thing that Pharaoh is likely to have said to Moses, and so it probably is what he thought or reasoned within himself. Other passages (like Exod 2:14; 3:3) show that the verb “said” can do this. (See U. Cassuto, Exodus, 67.)

[12:33]  ⁷ tn The verb used here (חָזַק, khazaq) is the same verb used for Pharaoh’s heart being hardened. It conveys the idea of their being resolved or insistent in this – they were not going to change.

[12:33]  ⁸ tn The phrase uses two construct infinitives in a hendiadys, the first infinitive becoming the modifier.

[23:30]  ¹⁰ tn The repetition expresses an exceptional or super-fine quality (see GKC 396 §123.e).