Exo 14:16 | NETfull | STEP | And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.

Exodus 14:16

16 And as for you, ^{▼▼ The conjunction plus pronoun (“and you”) is emphatic – “and as for you” – before the imperative “lift up.” In contrast, v. 17 begins with “and as for me, I….”} lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that ^{▼▼ The imperfect (or jussive) with the vav (ו) is sequential, coming after the series of imperatives instructing Moses to divide the sea; the form then gives the purpose (or result) of the activity – “that they may go.”} the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.