Exodus 12:30 New English Translation
30 Pharaoh got up[a] in the night,[b] along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house[c] in which there was not someone dead.
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- Exodus 12:30 tn Heb “arose,” the verb קוּם (qum) in this context certainly must describe a less ceremonial act. The entire country woke up in terror because of the deaths.
- Exodus 12:30 tn The noun is an adverbial accusative of time—“in the night” or “at night.”
- Exodus 12:30 sn Or so it seemed. One need not push this description to complete literalness. The reference would be limited to houses that actually had firstborn people or animals. In a society in which households might include more than one generation of humans and animals, however, the presence of a firstborn human or animal would be the rule rather than the exception.
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