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Exodus 32:18
New English Translation
Exodus 32:18
New English Translation
18 Moses[a] said, “It is not the sound of those who shout for victory,[b] nor is it the sound of those who cry because they are overcome,[c] but the sound of singing[d] I hear.”[e]
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- Exodus 32:18 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Exodus 32:18 tn Heb “the sound of the answering of might,” meaning it is not the sound of shouting in victory (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 418).
- Exodus 32:18 tn Heb “the sound of the answering of weakness,” meaning the cry of the defeated (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 415).
- Exodus 32:18 tn Heb “answering in song” (a play on the twofold meaning of the word).
- Exodus 32:18 sn See A. Newman, “Compositional Analysis and Functional Ambiguity Equivalence: Translating Exodus 32, 17-18, ” Babel 21 (1975): 29-35.
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