Discovery BoxExodus 7:9 
Context7:9 “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Do 1 a miracle,’ and you say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down 2 before Pharaoh,’ it will become 3 a snake.”
Exodus 8:12
Context8:12 Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried 4 to the Lord because of 5 the frogs that he had brought on 6 Pharaoh.
Exodus 11:10
Context11:10 So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.
1 tn The verb is תְּנוּ (tÿnu), literally “give.” The imperative is followed by an ethical dative that strengthens the subject of the imperative: “you give a miracle.”
2 tn Heb “and throw it.” The direct object, “it,” is implied.
3 tn The form is the jussive יְהִי ( yÿhi). Gesenius notes that frequently in a conditional clause, a sentence with a protasis and apodosis, the jussive will be used. Here it is in the apodosis (GKC 323 §109.h).
4 tn The verb צָעַק (tsa’aq) is used for prayers in which people cry out of trouble or from danger. U. Cassuto observes that Moses would have been in real danger if God had not answered this prayer (Exodus, 103).
5 tn Heb “over the matter of.”
6 tn The verb is an unusual choice if it were just to mean “brought on.” It is the verb שִׂים (sim, “place, put”). S. R. Driver thinks the thought is “appointed for Pharaoh” as a sign (Exodus, 64). The idea of the sign might be too much, but certainly the frogs were positioned for the instruction of the stubborn king.
