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Exodus 32:18

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32:18 Moses 1  said, “It is not the sound of those who shout for victory, 2  nor is it the sound of those who cry because they are overcome, 3  but the sound of singing 4  I hear.” 5 

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[32:18]  1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:18]  2 tn Heb “the sound of the answering of might,” meaning it is not the sound of shouting in victory (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 418).

[32:18]  3 tn Heb “the sound of the answering of weakness,” meaning the cry of the defeated (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 415).

[32:18]  4 tn Heb “answering in song” (a play on the twofold meaning of the word).

[32:18]  5 sn See A. Newman, “Compositional Analysis and Functional Ambiguity Equivalence: Translating Exodus 32, 17-18,” Babel 21 (1975): 29-35.



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