Exodus 10:10

10:10 He said to them, “The Lord will need to be with you ¹  if I release you and your dependents! ²  Watch out! ³  Trouble is right in front of you! ⁴ 

Exodus 10:23

10:23 No one ⁵  could see ⁶  another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

Exodus 35:30

35:30 Moses said to the Israelites, “See, the Lord has chosen ⁷  Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

Exodus 10:6

10:6 They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as ⁸  neither ⁹  your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been ¹⁰  in the land until this day!’” Then Moses ¹¹  turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 16:29

16:29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why ¹²  he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; ¹³  let no one ¹⁴  go out of his place on the seventh day.”

[10:10]  ¹ sn Pharaoh is by no means offering a blessing on them in the name of Yahweh. The meaning of his “wish” is connected to the next clause – as he is releasing them, may God help them. S. R. Driver says that in Pharaoh’s scornful challenge Yahweh is as likely to protect them as Pharaoh is likely to let them go – not at all (Exodus, 80). He is planning to keep the women and children as hostages to force the men to return. U. Cassuto (Exodus, 125) paraphrases it this way: “May the help of your God be as far from you as I am from giving you permission to go forth with your little ones.” The real irony, Cassuto observes, is that in the final analysis he will let them go, and Yahweh will be with them.

[10:10]  ² tn The context of Moses’ list of young and old, sons and daughters, and the contrast with the word for strong “men” in v. 11 indicates that טַפְּכֶם (tappÿkhem), often translated “little ones” or “children,” refers to dependent people, noncombatants in general.

[10:10]  ³ tn Heb “see.”

[10:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “before your face.”

[10:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “a man…his brother.”

[10:23]  ⁶ tn The perfect tense in this context requires the somewhat rare classification of a potential perfect.

[35:30]  ⁹ tn Heb “called by name” (so KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV). This expression means that the person was specifically chosen for some important task (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 342). See the expression with Cyrus in Isa 45:3-4.

[10:6]  ¹³ tn The relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher) is occasionally used as a comparative conjunction (see GKC 499 §161.b).

[10:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “which your fathers have not seen, nor your fathers’ fathers.”

[10:6]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew construction מִיּוֹם הֱיוֹתָם (miyyom heyotam, “from the day of their being”). The statement essentially says that no one, even the elderly, could remember seeing a plague of locusts like this. In addition, see B. Childs, “A Study of the Formula, ‘Until This Day,’” JBL 82 (1963).

[10:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:29]  ¹⁷ sn Noting the rabbinic teaching that the giving of the Sabbath was a sign of God’s love – it was accomplished through the double portion on the sixth day – B. Jacob says, “God made no request unless He provided the means for its execution” (Exodus, 461).

[16:29]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “remain, a man where he is.”

[16:29]  ¹⁹ tn Or “Let not anyone go” (see GKC 445 §138.d).