Exodus 10:24

10:24 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, serve the Lord – only your flocks and herds will be detained. Even your families ¹  may go with you.”

Exodus 23:23

23:23 For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them completely. ² 

Exodus 32:34

32:34 So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, ³  my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.” ⁴ 

[10:24]  ¹ tn Or “dependents.” The term is often translated “your little ones,” but as mentioned before (10:10), this expression in these passages takes in women and children and other dependents. Pharaoh will now let all the people go, but he intends to detain the cattle to secure their return.

[23:23]  ² tn Heb “will cut them off” (so KJV, ASV).

[32:34]  ³ tn Heb “behold, look.” Moses should take this fact into consideration.

[32:34]  ⁴ sn The Law said that God would not clear the guilty. But here the punishment is postponed to some future date when he would revisit this matter. Others have taken the line to mean that whenever a reckoning was considered necessary, then this sin would be included (see B. Jacob, Exodus, 957). The repetition of the verb traditionally rendered “visit” in both clauses puts emphasis on the certainty – so “indeed.”