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Exodus 24:2

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24:2 Moses alone may come 1  near the Lord, but the others 2  must not come near, 3  nor may the people go up with him.”

1 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).

2 tn Heb “they.”

3 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.



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