Exodus 10:6

10:6 They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as ¹  neither ²  your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been ³  in the land until this day!’” Then Moses ⁴  turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 11:8

11:8 All these your servants will come down to me and bow down ⁵  to me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow ⁶  you,’ and after that I will go out.” Then Moses ⁷  went out from Pharaoh in great anger.

Exodus 32:13

32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants ⁸  like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about ⁹  I will give to your descendants, ¹⁰  and they will inherit it forever.’”

[10:6]  ¹ tn The relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher) is occasionally used as a comparative conjunction (see GKC 499 §161.b).

[10:6]  ² tn Heb “which your fathers have not seen, nor your fathers’ fathers.”

[10:6]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:8]  ⁵ sn Moses’ anger is expressed forcefully. “He had appeared before Pharaoh a dozen times either as God’s emissary or when summoned by Pharaoh, but he would not come again; now they would have to search him out if they needed help” (B. Jacob, Exodus, 289-90).

[11:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “that are at your feet.”

[11:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “your seed.”

[32:13]  ¹⁰ tn “about” has been supplied.

[32:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “seed.”