Exodus 15:17

15:17 You will bring them in and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,

in the place you made for your residence, O Lord,

the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.

Exodus 34:9

34:9 and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”


tn The verb is imperfect.

sn The “mountain” and the “place” would be wherever Yahweh met with his people. It here refers to Canaan, the land promised to the patriarchs.

tn The verb is perfect tense, referring to Yahweh’s previous choice of the holy place.

tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” two times here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

tn Heb “it is.” Hebrew uses the third person masculine singular pronoun here in agreement with the noun “people.”