Keluaran 10:6
Konteks10:6 They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as 1 neither 2 your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been 3 in the land until this day!’” Then Moses 4 turned and went out from Pharaoh.
Keluaran 22:27
Konteks22:27 for it is his only covering – it is his garment for his body. 5 What else can he sleep in? 6 And 7 when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.
[10:6] 1 tn The relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher) is occasionally used as a comparative conjunction (see GKC 499 §161.b).
[10:6] 2 tn Heb “which your fathers have not seen, nor your fathers’ fathers.”
[10:6] 3 tn The Hebrew construction מִיּוֹם הֱיוֹתָם (miyyom heyotam, “from the day of their being”). The statement essentially says that no one, even the elderly, could remember seeing a plague of locusts like this. In addition, see B. Childs, “A Study of the Formula, ‘Until This Day,’” JBL 82 (1963).
[10:6] 4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[22:27] 6 tn Literally the text reads, “In what can he lie down?” The cloak would be used for a covering at night to use when sleeping. The garment, then, was the property that could not be taken and not given back – it was the last possession. The modern idiom of “the shirt off his back” gets at the point being made here.