Keluaran 1:21

1:21 And because the midwives feared God, he made ¹  households ²  for them.

Keluaran 2:25

2:25 God saw ³  the Israelites, and God understood…. ⁴ 

Keluaran 16:19

16:19 Moses said to them, “No one ⁵  is to keep any of it ⁶  until morning.”

Keluaran 34:33

34:33 When Moses finished ⁷  speaking ⁸  with them, he would ⁹  put a veil on his face.

[1:21]  ¹ tn The temporal indicator וַיְהִי (vayÿhi) focuses attention on the causal clause and lays the foundation for the main clause, namely, “God made households for them.” This is the second time the text affirms the reason for their defiance, their fear of God.

[1:21]  ² tn Or “families”; Heb “houses.”

[2:25]  ³ tn Heb “and God saw.”

[2:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “and God knew” (יָדַע, yada’). The last clause contains a widely used verb for knowing, but it leaves the object unexpressed within the clause, so as to allow all that vv. 23-24 have described to serve as the compelling content of God’s knowing. (Many modern English versions supply an object for the verb following the LXX, which reads “knew them.”) The idea seems to be that God took personal knowledge of, noticed, or regarded them. In other passages the verb “know” is similar in meaning to “save” or “show pity.” See especially Gen 18:21, Ps 1:6; 31:7, and Amos 3:2. Exodus has already provided an example of the results of not knowing in 1:8 (cf. 5:2).

[16:19]  ⁵ tn The address now is for “man” (אִישׁ, ’ish), “each one”; here the instruction seems to be focused on the individual heads of the households.

[16:19]  ⁶ tn Or “some of it,” “from it.”

[34:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “and Moses finished”; the clause is subordinated as a temporal clause to the next clause.

[34:33]  ⁸ tn The Piel infinitive construct is the object of the preposition; the whole phrase serves as the direct object of the verb “finished.”

[34:33]  ⁹ tn Throughout this section the actions of Moses and the people are frequentative. The text tells what happened regularly.