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Exodus 34:8-9
New English Translation
Exodus 34:8-9
New English Translation
8 Moses quickly bowed[a] to the ground and worshiped 9 and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord[b] go among us, for we[c] are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
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- Exodus 34:8 tn The first two verbs form a hendiadys: “he hurried…he bowed,” meaning “he quickly bowed down.”
- Exodus 34:9 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” two times here is אֲדֹנָי (ʾadonay).
- Exodus 34:9 tn Heb “it is.” Hebrew uses the third person masculine singular pronoun here in agreement with the noun “people.”
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