Keluaran 9:5

9:5 The Lord set ¹  an appointed time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this ²  in the land.”

Keluaran 19:22

19:22 Let the priests also, who approach the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break through ³  against them.”

Keluaran 32:18

32:18 Moses ⁴  said, “It is not the sound of those who shout for victory, ⁵  nor is it the sound of those who cry because they are overcome, ⁶  but the sound of singing ⁷  I hear.” ⁸ 

[9:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and Yahweh set.”

[9:5]  ² tn Heb “this thing.”

[19:22]  ³ tn The verb יִפְרֹץ (yifrots) is the imperfect tense from פָּרַץ (parats, “to make a breach, to break through”). The image of Yahweh breaking forth on them means “work destruction” (see 2 Sam 6:8; S. R. Driver, Exodus, 174).

[32:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “the sound of the answering of might,” meaning it is not the sound of shouting in victory (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 418).

[32:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “the sound of the answering of weakness,” meaning the cry of the defeated (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 415).

[32:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “answering in song” (a play on the twofold meaning of the word).

[32:18]  ⁸ sn See A. Newman, “Compositional Analysis and Functional Ambiguity Equivalence: Translating Exodus 32, 17-18,” Babel 21 (1975): 29-35.