Exodus 10:6
Context| NETBible | They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as 1 neither 2 your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been 3 in the land until this day!’” Then Moses 4 turned and went out from Pharaoh. |
| XREF | Ex 8:3,21; Ex 9:24; Ex 10:11; Ex 10:14,15; Ex 11:6; Ex 11:8; Joe 2:2; Heb 11:27 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn The relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher) is occasionally used as a comparative conjunction (see GKC 499 §161.b). 2 tn Heb “which your fathers have not seen, nor your fathers’ fathers.” 3 tn The Hebrew construction מִיּוֹם הֱיוֹתָם (miyyom heyotam, “from the day of their being”). The statement essentially says that no one, even the elderly, could remember seeing a plague of locusts like this. In addition, see B. Childs, “A Study of the Formula, ‘Until This Day,’” JBL 82 (1963). 4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
