Discovery BoxExodus 2:9 
Context2:9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child 1 and nurse him for me, and I will pay your 2 wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
Exodus 4:27
Context4:27 The Lord said 3 to Aaron, “Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God 4 and greeted him with a kiss. 5
Exodus 15:2
Context15:2 The Lord 6 is my strength and my song, 7
and he has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him, 8
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Exodus 22:3
Context22:3 If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief 9 must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.
1 tn The verb is the Hiphil imperative of the verb הָלַךְ (halakh), and so is properly rendered “cause to go” or “take away.”
2 tn The possessive pronoun on the noun “wage” expresses the indirect object: “I will pay wages to you.”
3 tn Heb “And Yahweh said.”
4 tn S. R. Driver considers that this verse is a continuation of vv. 17 and 18 and that Aaron met Moses before Moses started back to Egypt (Exodus, 33). The first verb, then, might have the nuance of a past perfect: Yahweh had said.
5 tn Heb “and kissed him.”
6 tn Heb “Yah.” Moses’ poem here uses a short form of the name Yahweh, traditionally rendered in English by “the LORD.”
7 tn The word וְזִמְרָת (vÿzimrat) is problematic. It probably had a suffix yod (י) that was accidentally dropped because of the yod (י) on the divine name following. Most scholars posit another meaning for the word. A meaning of “power” fits the line fairly well, forming a hendiadys with strength – “strength and power” becoming “strong power.” Similar lines are in Isa 12:2 and Ps 118:14. Others suggest “protection” or “glory.” However, there is nothing substantially wrong with “my song” in the line – only that it would be a nicer match if it had something to do with strength.
8 tn The word נָוָה (navah) occurs only here. It may mean “beautify, adorn” with praises (see BDB 627 s.v.). See also M. Dahood, “Exodus 15:2: ‘anwehu and Ugaritic snwt,” Bib 59 (1979): 260-61; and M. Klein, “The Targumic Tosefta to Exodus 15:2,” JJS 26 (1975): 61-67; and S. B. Parker, “Exodus 15:2 Again,” VT 21 (1971): 373-79.
9 tn The words “a thief” have been added for clarification. S. R. Driver (Exodus, 224) thinks that these lines are out of order, since some of them deal with killing the thief and then others with the thief making restitution, but rearranging the clauses is not a necessary way to bring clarity to the paragraph. The idea here would be that any thief caught alive would pay restitution.
