9:18 I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down37 about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred38 in Egypt from the day it was founded39 until now.
tnהִנְנִי מַמְטִיר (hinéni mamtir) is the futur instans construction, giving an imminent future translation: “Here—I am about to cause it to rain.”
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tnHeb “which not was like it in Egypt.” The pronoun suffix serves as the resumptive pronoun for the relative particle: “which … like it” becomes “the like of which has not been.” The word “hail” is added in the translation to make clear the referent of the relative particle.
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tn The form הִוָּסְדָה (hivvasdah) is perhaps a rare Niphal perfect and not an infinitive (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 117).