Exodus 12:44

12:44 But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.

Exodus 14:7

14:7 He took six hundred select ¹  chariots, and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt, ²  and officers ³  on all of them.

Exodus 34:19

34:19 “Every firstborn of the womb ⁴  belongs to me, even every firstborn ⁵  of your cattle that is a male, ⁶  whether ox or sheep.

Exodus 34:31

34:31 But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them.

Exodus 35:10

35:10 Every skilled person ⁷  among you is to come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

Exodus 35:26

35:26 and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled ⁸  spun goats’ hair.

¹ tn The passive participle of the verb “to choose” means that these were “choice” or superb chariots.

² tn Heb “every chariot of Egypt.” After the mention of the best chariots, the meaning of this description is “all the other chariots.”

³ tn The word שָׁלִשִׁם (shalishim) means “officers” or some special kind of military personnel. At one time it was taken to mean a “three man chariot,” but the pictures of Egyptian chariots only show two in a chariot. It may mean officers near the king, “men of the third rank” (B. Jacob, Exodus, 394). So the chariots and the crew represented the elite. See the old view by A. E. Cowley that linked it to a Hittite word (“A Hittite Word in Hebrew,” JTS 21 [1920]: 326), and the more recent work by P. C. Craigie connecting it to Egyptian “commander” (“An Egyptian Expression in the Song of the Sea: Exodus XV.4,” VT 20 [1970]: 85).

¹ tn Heb “everything that opens the womb.”

² tn Here too: everything that “opens [the womb].”

³ tn The verb basically means “that drops a male.” The verb is feminine, referring to the cattle.

¹ tn Heb “wise of heart”; here also “heart” would be a genitive of specification, showing that there were those who could make skillful decisions.

¹ tn The text simply uses a prepositional phrase, “with/in wisdom.” It seems to be qualifying “the women” as the relative clause is.