34:18 “You must keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days 6 you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you; do this 7 at the appointed time of the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
1 tn Heb “Seven days.”
2 tn The imperfect tense functions with the nuance of instruction or injunction. It could also be given an obligatory nuance: “you must eat” or “you are to eat.” Some versions have simply made it an imperative.
3 tn The phrase “there is to be” has been supplied.
4 tn Heb “and the seventh year”; an adverbial accusative with a disjunctive vav (ו).
5 tn Heb “living thing/creature/beast of the field.” A general term for animals, usually wild animals, including predators (cf. v. 29; Gen 2:19-20; Lev 26:22; Deut 7:22; 1 Sam 17:46; Job 5:22-23; Ezek 29:5; 34:5).
7 tn This is an adverbial accusative of time.
8 tn The words “do this” have been supplied.
10 tn This is an adverbial accusative of time.
11 tn Heb “in it.”
12 tn The verb is a Niphal imperfect; the nuance of permission works well here – no one is permitted to appear before God empty (Heb “and they will not appear before me empty”).