Keluaran 18:11

18:11 Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.” ¹ 

Ulangan 32:39

The Vindication of the Lord

32:39 “See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, ² 

“and there is no other god besides me.

I kill and give life,

I smash and I heal,

and none can resist ³  my power.

Ulangan 32:2

32:2 My teaching will drop like the rain,

my sayings will drip like the dew, ⁴ 

as rain drops upon the grass,

and showers upon new growth.

1 Tawarikh 2:5

2:5 The sons of Perez:

Hezron and Hamul.

Mazmur 135:5

135:5 Yes, ⁵  I know the Lord is great,

and our Lord is superior to all gods.

Yesaya 40:25

40:25 “To whom can you compare me? Whom do I resemble?”

says the Holy One. ⁶ 

[18:11]  ¹ tn The end of this sentence seems not to have been finished, or it is very elliptical. In the present translation the phrase “he has destroyed them” is supplied. Others take the last prepositional phrase to be the completion and supply only a verb: “[he was] above them.” U. Cassuto (Exodus, 216) takes the word “gods” to be the subject of the verb “act proudly,” giving the sense of “precisely (כִּי, ki) in respect of these things of which the gods of Egypt boasted – He is greater than they (עֲלֵיהֶם, ‘alehem).” He suggests rendering the clause, “excelling them in the very things to which they laid claim.”

[32:39]  ² tn Verses 39-42 appear to be a quotation of the Lord and so the introductory phrase “says the Lord” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[32:39]  ³ tn Heb “deliver from” (so NRSV, NLT).

[32:2]  ⁴ tn Or “mist,” “light drizzle.” In some contexts the term appears to refer to light rain, rather than dew.

[135:5]  ⁵ tn Or “for.”

[40:25]  ⁶ sn See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.