30:26 “With it you are to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony,
1 tn Heb “bound.”
2 tn Heb “his people.”
3 tn The verb means “disabled, weakened, prostrated.” It is used a couple of times in the Bible to describe how man dies and is powerless (see Job 14:10; Isa 14:12).
4 tn Or “people.”
5 tn Heb “mouth of the sword.” It means as the sword devours – without quarter (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 159).
5 tn That is, from water from it.
7 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the lampstand) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 sn U. Cassuto (Exodus, 480) notes that the items inside the tent did not need to be enumerated since they were already holy, but items in the courtyard needed special attention. People needed to know that items outside the tent were just as holy.