Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Exo 14:10) | 5 tn The verb “feared” is intensified by the adverb מְאֹד (meʾod): “they feared greatly” or “were terrified.” In one look their defiant boldness seems to have evaporated. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 14:10) | 3 tn Heb “lifted up their eyes,” an expression that indicates an intentional and careful looking—they looked up and fixed their sights on the distance. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 14:4) | 3 tn This is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive. But it announces the fulfillment of a long standing purpose—that they might know. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 13:12) | 5 tn The Hebrew text simply has “the males to Yahweh.” It indicates that the Lord must have them, or they belong to the Lord. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 12:3) | 1 tn Heb “and they will take for them a man a lamb.” This is clearly a distributive, or individualizing, use of “man.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 8:14) | 1 tn Heb “and they piled them.” For clarity the translation supplies the referent “the Egyptians” as the ones who were piling the frogs. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 7:19) | 3 tn The imperfect tense with vav (ו) after the imperative indicates the purpose or result: “in order that they [the waters] be[come] blood.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 6:7) | 1 sn These covenant promises are being reiterated here because they are about to be fulfilled. They are addressed to the nation, not individuals, as the plural suffixes show. Yahweh was their God already because they had been praying to him and he is acting on their behalf. When they enter into covenant with God at Sinai, then he will be the God of Israel in a new way (19:4-6; cf. Gen 17:7-8; 28:20-22; Lev 26:11-12; Jer 24:7; Ezek 11:17-20). |
| (0.30) | (Exo 5:16) | 1 tn Heb “[they] are saying to us,” the line can be rendered as a passive since there is no expressed subject for the participle. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 5:18) | 1 tn The text has two imperatives: “go, work.” They may be used together to convey one complex idea (so a use of hendiadys): “go back to work.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 5:19) | 3 tn The clause “when they were told” translates לֵאמֹר (leʾmor), which usually simply means “saying.” The thing that was said was clearly the decree that was given to them. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 4:8) | 3 tn The nuance of this perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive will be equal to the imperfect of possibility—“they may believe.” |
| (0.30) | (Exo 2:18) | 1 tn The verb means “to go, to come, to enter.” In this context it means that they returned to their father, or came home. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 1:19) | 3 sn The point of this brief section is that the midwives respected God above the king. They simply followed a higher authority that prohibited killing. Fearing God is a basic part of the true faith that leads to an obedient course of action and is not terrified by worldly threats. There probably was enough truth in what they were saying to be believable, but they clearly had no intention of honoring the king by participating in murder, and they saw no reason to give him a straightforward answer. God honored their actions. |
| (0.30) | (Exo 1:12) | 3 tn Heb “they felt a loathing before/because of”; the referent (the Egyptians) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 49:23) | 1 tn The verb forms in vv. 23-24 are used in a rhetorical manner, describing future events as if they had already taken place. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 44:3) | 2 tn Heb “and the men were sent off, they and their donkeys.” This clause, like the preceding one, has the subject before the verb, indicating synchronic action. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 42:23) | 2 tn “was listening.” The brothers were not aware that Joseph could understand them as they spoke the preceding words in their native language. |
| (0.30) | (Gen 41:18) | 1 tn Heb “and look, from the Nile seven cows were coming up, fat of flesh and attractive of appearance, and they grazed in the reeds.” |
| (0.30) | (Gen 39:22) | 1 tn Heb “all which they were doing there, he was doing.” This probably means that Joseph was in charge of everything that went on in the prison. |
