Discovery BoxExodus 11:6 
Context11:6 There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, 1 nor ever will be again. 2
Exodus 13:22
Context13:22 He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people. 3
Exodus 16:24
Context16:24 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
Context24:2 Moses alone may come 4 near the Lord, but the others 5 must not come near, 6 nor may the people go up with him.”
1 tn Heb “which like it there has never been.”
2 tn Heb “and like it it will not add.”
3 sn See T. W. Mann, “The Pillar of Cloud in the Reed Sea Narrative,” JBL 90 (1971): 15-30.
4 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).
5 tn Heb “they.”
6 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.
