OET interlinear EXO 9:1

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-newevent

וַ⁠יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙

and=he/it_said YHWH

A new scene begins here. Use the natural form in your language for introducing a new event. This is the beginning of the fifth plague sequence.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks

אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה

to/towards Mosheh

After this phrase, a direct quote begins that continues to the end of [9:4](../09/04.md) and contains two additional levels of quotes. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this with an opening first-level quotation mark or with whatever other punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate the beginning of a quotation. There may be other quotations in this chapter; they will be marked by the same punctuation, but they will not have their own notes unless there is something unique about them.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes

וְ⁠דִבַּרְתָּ֣ אֵלָ֗י⁠ו כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י הָֽ⁠עִבְרִ֔ים

and,you_will_say to=him/it thus he/it_had_said YHWH god_of of,the_Hebrews

You may want to translate the second-level quotation beginning with Thus says Yahweh as an indirect quotation in order to reduce the levels of quotations in this passage. Alternate translation: [and say to him that Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says]

כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙

thus he/it_had_said YHWH

This quotation formula is used to introduce commands from Yahweh. See [4:intro](../04/intro.md) for more information.

אֶת־עַמִּ֖⁠י

DOM people_of,my

Alternate translation: [the Israelites]