Exodus 12:7

12:7 They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

Exodus 26:17

26:17 with two projections ¹  per frame parallel one to another. ²  You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Exodus 28:11

28:11 You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; ³  you are to have them set ⁴  in gold filigree ⁵  settings.

Exodus 28:26

28:26 You are to make two rings of gold and put them on the other ⁶  two ends of the breastpiece, on its edge that is on the inner side of the ephod.

Exodus 36:22

36:22 with ⁷  two projections per frame parallel one to another. ⁸  He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Exodus 37:27

37:27 He also made ⁹  two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, ¹⁰  as places ¹¹  for poles to carry it with.

Exodus 39:19

39:19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the other ¹²  two ends of the breastpiece on its edge, which is on the inner side of the ephod. ¹³ 

¹ sn Heb “hands,” the reference is probably to projections that served as stays or supports. They may have been tenons, or pegs, projecting from the bottom of the frames to hold the frames in their sockets (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 286).

² tn Or “being joined each to the other.”

¹ sn Expert stone or gem engravers were used to engrave designs and names in identification seals of various sizes. It was work that skilled artisans did.

² tn Or “you will mount them” (NRSV similar).

³ tn Or “rosettes,” shield-like frames for the stones. The Hebrew word means “to plait, checker.”

¹ tn Here “other” has been supplied.

¹ tn Heb “two hands to the one frame.”

² tn Heb “joined one to one.”

¹ tn Heb “and he made.”

² sn Since it was a small altar, it needed only two rings, one on either side, in order to be carried. The second mention of their location clarifies that they should be on the sides, the right and the left, as one approached the altar.

³ tn Heb “for houses.”

¹ tn Here “other” has been supplied.

² tn Heb “homeward side.”