Exodus 11:6

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

Exodus 13:22

13:22 He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.

Exodus 16:24

16:24 So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.

Exodus 24:2

24:2 Moses alone may come near the Lord, but the others must not come near, nor may the people go up with him.”


tn Heb “which like it there has never been.”

tn Heb “and like it it will not add.”

sn See T. W. Mann, “The Pillar of Cloud in the Reed Sea Narrative,” JBL 90 (1971): 15-30.

tn The verb is a perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive; it and the preceding perfect tense follow the imperative, and so have either a force of instruction, or, as taken here, are the equivalent of an imperfect tense (of permission).

tn Heb “they.”

tn Now the imperfect tense negated is used; here the prohibition would fit (“they will not come near”), or the obligatory (“they must not”) in which the subjects are obliged to act – or not act in this case.