Exodus 14:20
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14:20It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud53 and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other54 the whole night.55
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- 53 The two nouns “cloud” and “darkness” form a nominal hendiadys: “and it was the cloud and the darkness” means “and it was the dark cloud.” Perhaps this is what the Egyptians saw, preventing them from observing Moses and the Israelites.
- 54 Heb “this to this”; for the use of the pronouns in this reciprocal sense of “the one to the other,” see §139.e, n. 3.
- 55 The reads very differently at the end of this verse: “and there was darkness and blackness and the night passed.” B. S. Childs (Exodus [], 218) summarizes three proposals: (1) One takes the as it stands and explains it along the lines of the and Jewish exegesis, that there was one cloud that was dark to one group and light to the other. (2) Another tries to reconstruct a verb from the noun “darkness” or make some use of the Greek verb. (3) A third seeks a different meaning for the verb “lit,” “gave light” by comparative philology, but no consensus has been reached. Given that there is no easy solution apart from reconstructing the text, and given that the can be interpreted as it is, the present translation follows the .
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
It came between the Egyptian and Israelite forces. There was cloud and darkness, it lit up the night, and neither group came near the other all night long.
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NLTNew Living Translation
The cloud settled between the Egyptian and Israelite camps. As darkness fell, the cloud turned to fire, lighting up the night. But the Egyptians and Israelites did not approach each other all night.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
so that it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. And it was a dark cloud, but it gave light to the night, so that neither approached the other all night.
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KJV 1900King James Version
And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
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