Discovery BoxExodus 9:20-21 
Context9:20 Those 1 of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their 2 servants and livestock into the houses, 9:21 but those 3 who did not take 4 the word of the Lord seriously left their servants and their cattle 5 in the field.
Exodus 15:7
Context15:7 In the abundance of your majesty 6 you have overthrown 7
those who rise up against you. 8
You sent forth 9 your wrath; 10
it consumed them 11 like stubble.
Exodus 30:14
Context30:14 Everyone who crosses over to those numbered, from twenty years old and up, is to pay an offering to the Lord.
Exodus 38:25
Context38:25 The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, 12 according to the sanctuary shekel,
1 tn The text has “the one fearing.” The singular expression here and throughout vv. 20-21 refers to all who fit the description.
2 tn Heb “his” (singular).
3 tn The Hebrew text again has the singular.
4 tn Heb “put to his heart.”
5 tn Heb “his servants and his cattle.”
6 sn This expression is cognate with words in v. 1. Here that same greatness or majesty is extolled as in abundance.
7 tn Here, and throughout the song, these verbs are the prefixed conjugation that may look like the imperfect but are actually historic preterites. This verb is to “overthrow” or “throw down” – like a wall, leaving it in shattered pieces.
8 tn The form קָמֶיךָ (qamekha) is the active participle with a pronominal suffix. The participle is accusative, the object of the verb, but the suffix is the genitive of nearer definition (see GKC 358 §116.i).
9 sn The verb is the Piel of שָׁלַח (shalakh), the same verb used throughout for the demand on Pharaoh to release Israel. Here, in some irony, God released his wrath on them.
10 sn The word wrath is a metonymy of cause; the effect – the judgment – is what is meant.
11 tn The verb is the prefixed conjugation, the preterite, without the consecutive vav (ו).
12 sn This would be a total of 301,775 shekels (about 140,828 oz), being a half shekel exacted per person from 605,550 male Israelites 20 years old or more (Num 1:46). The amount is estimated to be around 3.75 tons.
