Exodus 11:6

11:6 There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, ¹  nor ever will be again. ² 

Exodus 32:21

32:21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

Exodus 32:30-31

32:30 The next day Moses said to the people, ³  “You have committed a very serious sin, ⁴  but now I will go up to the Lord – perhaps I can make atonement ⁵  on behalf of your sin.”

32:31 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, ⁶  and they have made for themselves gods of gold.

Exodus 12:30

12:30 Pharaoh got up ⁷  in the night, ⁸  along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house ⁹  in which there was not someone dead.

[11:6]  ¹ tn Heb “which like it there has never been.”

[11:6]  ² tn Heb “and like it it will not add.”

[32:30]  ³ tn Heb “and it was on the morrow and Moses said to the people.”

[32:30]  ⁴ tn The text uses a cognate accusative: “you have sinned a great sin.”

[32:30]  ⁵ tn The form אֲכַפְּרָה (’akhappÿrah) is a Piel cohortative/imperfect. Here with only a possibility of being successful, a potential imperfect nuance works best.

[32:31]  ⁵ tn As before, the cognate accusative is used; it would literally be “this people has sinned a great sin.”

[12:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “arose,” the verb קוּם (qum) in this context certainly must describe a less ceremonial act. The entire country woke up in terror because of the deaths.

[12:30]  ⁸ tn The noun is an adverbial accusative of time – “in the night” or “at night.”

[12:30]  ⁹ sn Or so it seemed. One need not push this description to complete literalness. The reference would be limited to houses that actually had firstborn people or animals. In a society in which households might include more than one generation of humans and animals, however, the presence of a firstborn human or animal would be the rule rather than the exception.