Exodus 10:15

10:15 They covered ¹  the surface ²  of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them, ³  and they ate all the vegetation of the ground and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green remained on the trees or on anything that grew in the fields throughout the whole land of Egypt.

Exodus 34:10

34:10 He said, “See, I am going to make ⁴  a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done ⁵  in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you. ⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “and they covered.”

² tn Heb “eye,” an unusual expression (see v. 5; Num 22:5, 11).

³ tn The verb is וַתֶּחְשַׁךְ (vattekhshakh, “and it became dark”). The idea is that the ground had the color of the swarms of locusts that covered it.

⁴ tn Here again is a use of the futur instans participle; the deictic particle plus the pronoun precedes the participle, showing what is about to happen.

⁵ tn The verb here is בָּרָא (bara’, “to create”). The choice of this verb is to stress that these wonders would be supernaturally performed, for the verb is used only with God as the subject.

⁶ sn The idea is that God will be doing awesome things in dealing with them, i.e., to fulfill his program.