Keluaran 11:4

11:4 Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight ¹  I will go throughout Egypt, ² 

Keluaran 14:22

14:22 So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall ³  for them on their right and on their left.

Keluaran 14:29

14:29 But the Israelites walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

Keluaran 26:28

26:28 The middle bar in the center of the frames will reach from end to end. ⁴ 

Keluaran 36:33

36:33 He made the middle bar to reach from end to end in the center of the frames.

[11:4]  ¹ tn Heb “about the middle of the night.”

[11:4]  ² tn Heb “I will go out in the midst of Egypt.”

[14:22]  ³ tn The clause literally reads, “and the waters [were] for them a wall.” The word order in Hebrew is disjunctive, with the vav (ו) on the noun introducing a circumstantial clause.

[14:22]  sn S. R. Driver (Exodus, 119), still trying to explain things with natural explanations, suggests that a northeast wind is to be thought of (an east wind would be directly in their face he says), such as a shallow ford might cooperate with an ebb tide in keeping a passage clear. He then quotes Dillmann about the “wall” of water: “A very summary poetical and hyperbolical (xv. 8) description of the occurrence, which at most can be pictured as the drying up of a shallow ford, on both sides of which the basin of the sea was much deeper, and remained filled with water.” There is no way to “water down” the text to fit natural explanations; the report clearly shows a miraculous work of God making a path through the sea – a path that had to be as wide as half a mile in order for the many people and their animals to cross between about 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:389). The text does not say that they actually only started across in the morning watch, however.

[26:28]  ⁴ sn These bars served as reinforcements to hold the upright frames together. The Hebrew term for these bars is also used of crossbars on gates (Judg 16:3; Neh 3:3).