Exodus 15:16

15:16 Fear and dread ¹  will fall ²  on them;

by the greatness ³  of your arm they will be as still as stone ⁴ 

until ⁵  your people pass by, O Lord,

until the people whom you have bought ⁶  pass by.

Exodus 36:3

36:3 and they received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to do ⁷  the work for the service of the sanctuary, and they still continued to bring him a freewill offering each morning. ⁸ 

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¹ tn The two words can form a nominal hendiadys, “a dreadful fear,” though most English versions retain the two separate terms.

² tn The form is an imperfect.

³ tn The adjective is in construct form and governs the noun “arm” (“arm” being the anthropomorphic expression for what God did). See GKC 428 §132.c.

⁴ sn For a study of the words for fear, see N. Waldman, “A Comparative Note on Exodus 15:14-16,” JQR 66 (1976): 189-92.

⁵ tn Clauses beginning with עַד (’ad) express a limit that is not absolute, but only relative, beyond which the action continues (GKC 446-47 §138.g).

⁶ tn The verb קָנָה (qanah) here is the verb “acquire, purchase,” and probably not the homonym “to create, make” (see Gen 4:1; Deut 32:6; and Prov 8:22).

⁷ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive “to do it” comes after “sanctuary”; it makes a smoother rendering in English to move it forward, rather than reading “brought for the work.”

⁸ tn Heb “in the morning, in the morning.”