Exodus 9:2

9:2 For if you refuse to release them ¹  and continue holding them, ² 

Exodus 23:3

23:3 and you must not show partiality ³  to a poor man in his lawsuit.

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¹ tn The object “them” is implied in the context.

² tn עוֹד (’od), an adverb meaning “yet, still,” can be inflected with suffixes and used as a predicator of existence, with the nuance “to still be, yet be” (T. O. Lambdin, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, 171-72, §137). Then, it is joined here with the Hiphil participle מַחֲזִיק (makhaziq) to form the sentence “you are still holding them.”

³ tn The point here is one of false sympathy and honor, the bad sense of the word הָדַר (hadar; see S. R. Driver, Exodus, 237).