Exodus 9:2 New English Translation
2 For if you refuse to release them[a] and continue holding them,[b]
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- Exodus 9:2 tn The object “them” is implied in the context.
- Exodus 9:2 tn עוֹד (ʿod), an adverb meaning “yet, still,” can be inflected with suffixes and used as a predicator of existence, with the nuance “to still be, yet be” (T. O. Lambdin, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, 171-72, §137). Then, it is joined here with the Hiphil participle מַחֲזִיק (makhaziq) to form the sentence “you are still holding them.”
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