Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionAnd the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GThe sons of Yisra'el said to Moshe: "Look — we are expiring! We are lost! All of us — we are lost!"
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageThe Israelites cried out to Moses: "We are dying! We are lost! Every last one of us is lost!"
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThen the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
Footnotes
The verb *gava* ('expiring') is distinct from the more common *mut* ('to die'). *Gava* evokes the slow, helpless fading of an exhausted creature — the guttering of a flame, the last breath of a dying animal — conveying not sudden death but inexorable extinction. The triple cry — *gavanu, avadnu, kulanu avadnu* ('we are expiring, we are lost, all of us are lost') — builds into a crescendo of communal despair. The bitter irony is acute: the rebellion that caused the deaths has produced not repentance but escalating panic. FOG uses 'expiring' to honour *gava*'s specific register of fading out; FOG Message opts for 'dying' for emotional immediacy while the triple repetition carries the spiralling dread.
