10:6 They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as21 neither22 your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been23 in the land until this day!’ ” Then Moses24 turned and went out from Pharaoh.
tn The relative pronoun אֲשֶׁר (’asher) is occasionally used as a comparative conjunction (see GKC499§161.b).
22
tnHeb “which your fathers have not seen, nor your fathers’ fathers.”
23
tn The Hebrew construction מִיּוֹם הֱיוֹתָם (miyyom heyotam, “from the day of their being”). The statement essentially says that no one, even the elderly, could remember seeing a plague of locusts like this. In addition, see B. Childs, “A Study of the Formula, ‘Until This Day,’ ” JBL 82 (1963).
24
tnHeb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.