Discovery BoxExodus 12:30 
Context12:30 Pharaoh got up 1 in the night, 2 along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house 3 in which there was not someone dead.
Exodus 26:4
Context26:4 You are to make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and in the same way you are to make loops 4 in the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set.
1 tn Heb “arose,” the verb קוּם (qum) in this context certainly must describe a less ceremonial act. The entire country woke up in terror because of the deaths.
2 tn The noun is an adverbial accusative of time – “in the night” or “at night.”
3 sn Or so it seemed. One need not push this description to complete literalness. The reference would be limited to houses that actually had firstborn people or animals. In a society in which households might include more than one generation of humans and animals, however, the presence of a firstborn human or animal would be the rule rather than the exception.
4 tn Here “loops” has been supplied.
