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Exodus 14:16
New English Translation
Exodus 14:16
New English Translation
16 And as for you,[a] lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that[b] the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.
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- Exodus 14:16 tn The conjunction plus pronoun (“and you”) is emphatic—“and as for you”—before the imperative “lift up.” In contrast, v. 17 begins with “and as for me, I….”
- Exodus 14:16 tn The imperfect (or jussive) with the vav (ו) is sequential, coming after the series of imperatives instructing Moses to divide the sea; the form then gives the purpose (or result) of the activity—“that they may go.”
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