Discovery BoxExodus 15:11 
Context15:11 Who is like you, 1 O Lord, among the gods? 2
Who is like you? – majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, 3 working wonders?
Exodus 18:11
Context18:11 Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.” 4
Exodus 23:13
Context23:13 “Pay attention to do 5 everything I have told you, and do not even mention 6 the names of other gods – do not let them be heard on your lips. 7
Exodus 23:33
Context23:33 They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare 8 to you.”
Exodus 32:31
Context32:31 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, 9 and they have made for themselves gods of gold.
1 tn The question is of course rhetorical; it is a way of affirming that no one is comparable to God. See C. J. Labuschagne, The Incomparability of Yahweh in the Old Testament, 22, 66-67, and 94-97.
2 sn Verses 11-17 will now focus on Yahweh as the incomparable one who was able to save Israel from their foes and afterward lead them to the promised land.
3 tn S. R. Driver suggests “praiseworthy acts” as the translation (Exodus, 137).
4 tn The end of this sentence seems not to have been finished, or it is very elliptical. In the present translation the phrase “he has destroyed them” is supplied. Others take the last prepositional phrase to be the completion and supply only a verb: “[he was] above them.” U. Cassuto (Exodus, 216) takes the word “gods” to be the subject of the verb “act proudly,” giving the sense of “precisely (כִּי, ki) in respect of these things of which the gods of Egypt boasted – He is greater than they (עֲלֵיהֶם, ‘alehem).” He suggests rendering the clause, “excelling them in the very things to which they laid claim.”
5 tn The phrase “to do” is added; in Hebrew word order the line says, “In all that I have said to you you will watch yourselves.” The verb for paying attention is a Niphal imperfect with an imperatival force.
6 tn Or “honor,” Hiphil of זָכַר (zakhar). See also Exod 20:25; Josh 23:7; Isa 26:13.
7 tn Heb “mouth.”
sn See also Ps 16:4, where David affirms his loyalty to God with this expression.
8 tn The idea of the “snare” is to lure them to judgment; God is apparently warning about contact with the Canaanites, either in worship or in business. They were very syncretistic, and so it would be dangerous to settle among them.
9 tn As before, the cognate accusative is used; it would literally be “this people has sinned a great sin.”
