14:16 And as for you,44 lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that45 the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.
tn The conjunction plus pronoun (“and you”) is emphatic—“and as for you”—before the imperative “lift up.” In contrast, v. 17 begins with “and as for me, I.…”
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tn The imperfect (or jussive) with the vav (ו) is sequential, coming after the series of imperatives instructing Moses to divide the sea; the form then gives the purpose (or result) of the activity—“that they may go.”