Exodus 12:35

12:35 Now the Israelites had done ¹  as Moses told them – they had requested from the Egyptians ²  silver and gold items and clothing.

Exodus 8:13

8:13 The Lord did as Moses asked ³  – the ⁴  frogs died out of the houses, the villages, and the fields.

Exodus 8:31

8:31 and the Lord did as Moses asked ⁵  – he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!

Exodus 16:10

16:10 As Aaron spoke ⁶  to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the desert, there the glory of the Lord ⁷  appeared ⁸  in the cloud,

Exodus 32:28

32:28 The Levites did what Moses ordered, ⁹  and that day about three thousand men of the people died. ¹⁰ 

[12:35]  ¹ tn The verbs “had done” and then “had asked” were accomplished prior to the present narrative (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 99). The verse begins with disjunctive word order to introduce the reminder of earlier background information.

[12:35]  ² tn Heb “from Egypt.” Here the Hebrew text uses the name of the country to represent the inhabitants (a figure known as metonymy).

[8:13]  ³ tn Heb “according to the word of Moses” (so KJV, NASB). Just as Moses had told Pharaoh “according to your word” (v. 10), now the Lord does “according to the word” of Moses.

[8:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the frogs died.”

[8:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to the word of Moses” (so KJV, ASV).

[16:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and it was as Aaron spoke.” The construction uses the temporal indicator and then the Piel infinitive construct followed by the subjective genitive “Aaron.”

[16:10]  ⁸ sn S. R. Driver says, “A brilliant glow of fire…symbolizing Jehovah’s presence, gleamed through the cloud, resting…on the Tent of Meeting. The cloud shrouds the full brilliancy of the glory, which human eye could not behold” (Exodus, 147-48; see also Ezek 1:28; 3:12, 23; 8:4; 9:3, et al.). A Hebrew word often translated “behold” or “lo” introduces the surprising sight.

[16:10]  ⁹ tn The verb is the Niphal perfect of the verb “to see” – “it was seen.” But the standard way of translating this form is from the perspective of Yahweh as subject – “he appeared.”

[32:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “did according to the word of Moses.”

[32:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fell.”