Exodus 17:4

17:4 Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What will I do with14 this people?—a little more15 and they will stone me!”16

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14	tn The preposition lamed (ל) is here specification, meaning “with respect to” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 49, §273).
15	tn Or “they are almost ready to stone me.”
16	tn The perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive almost develops an independent force; this is true in sentences where it follows an expression of time, as here (see GKC 334 §112.x).