1 Corinthians 10:1

“For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,”
1 Corinthians 10:1 · direct translation from the Greek

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ForγὰρI do notΟὐwantθέλωyouὑμᾶςto be unaware,ἀγνοεῖνbrothers,ἀδελφοίthatὅτιour fathersοἱ πατέρες ἡμῶνwereἦσανallπάντεςunderὑπὸthe cloudτὴν νεφέληνandκαὶallπάντεςpassed throughδιὰ διῆλθονthe sea,τῆς θαλάσσης

Explicit type · Exodus 13:21

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Paul rereads the exodus from Egypt: the fathers under the cloud and through the sea. In 10:6 he says that those things were “types” (typoi) for the believers.

The biblical author himself makes the connection, in these words:

Ταῦτα δὲ τύποι ἡμῶν ἐγενήθησαν “these things became examples for us” (1 Corinthians 10:6)

νεφέληνnephelēnG3507עָנָןananH6051“cloud”

1 Corinthians 10:1, word by word

wantθέλωthelō

want

To have the desire or the resolve for something.

Where else “thelō” appears

to be unawareἀγνοεῖνagnoein

not know

To lack knowledge, or act in the dark.

Where else “agnoein” appears

brothersἀδελφοίadelphoi

brother in faith

A believer, of the same family of God through the Messiah.

Where else “adelphoi” appears

our fathersπατέρεςpateres

forefather

An ancestor: Abraham as the founder of the family.

Where else “pateres” appears

wereἦσανēsan

be present

To be in a place or with someone.

Where else “ēsan” appears

the cloudνεφέληνnephelēn

cloud

Cloud.

Where else “nephelēn” appears

passed throughδιῆλθονdiēlthon

pass through

To travel through a place or over to the far shore.

Where else “diēlthon” appears

the seaθαλάσσηςthalassēs

sea

Sea; also a large lake, such as the Sea of Galilee.

Where else “thalassēs” appears

Translation note

Exodus 13:21; 14:22.

The context

1 · This verse (above)

2and all were immersed into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

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