Keluaran 14:16

14:16 And as for you, ¹  lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that ²  the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.

Keluaran 19:3

19:3 Moses ³  went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, “Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people ⁴  of Israel:

Keluaran 37:16

37:16 He made the vessels which were on the table out of pure gold, its ⁵  plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings.

[14:16]  ¹ 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….”

[14:16]  ² 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.”

[19:3]  ³ tn Heb “and Moses went up.”

[19:3]  ⁴ tn This expression is normally translated as “Israelites” in this translation, but because in this place it is parallel to “the house of Jacob” it seemed better to offer a fuller rendering.

[37:16]  ⁵ tn The suffixes on these could also indicate the indirect object (see Exod 25:29).