Exodus 17:4

New English Translation

⁴Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What will I do with^[a] this people?—a little more^[b] and they will stone me!”^[c]

Exodus 17:4 tn The preposition ל (lamed) is here specification, meaning “with respect to” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 49, §273).
Exodus 17:4 tn Or “they are almost ready to stone me.”
Exodus 17:4 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).

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