Exodus 19:15

19:15 He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.” ¹ 

Exodus 37:14

37:14 The rings were close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table.

Exodus 37:22

37:22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece; ²  all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold.

Exodus 38:2

38:2 He made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it, ³  and he overlaid it with bronze.

Exodus 37:9

37:9 The cherubim were spreading their wings ⁴  upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings. The cherubim ⁵  faced each other, ⁶  looking toward the atonement lid. ⁷ 

Exodus 37:17

The Making of the Lampstand

37:17 He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were from the same piece. ⁸ 

Exodus 37:25

The Making of the Altar of Incense

37:25 He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half – a square – and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it. ⁹ 

Exodus 34:1

The New Tablets of the Covenant

34:1 ¹⁰ The Lord said to Moses, “Cut out ¹¹  two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write ¹²  on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.

¹ tn Heb “do not go near a woman”; NIV “Abstain from sexual relations.”

² tn Heb “were from it.”

³ tn Heb “its horns were from it,” meaning from the same piece.

⁴ tn The construction is a participle in construct followed by the genitive “wings” – “spreaders of wings.”

⁵ tn “The cherubim” has been placed here instead of in the second clause to produce a smoother translation.

⁶ tn Heb “and their faces a man to his brother.”

⁷ tn Heb “to the atonement lid were the faces of the cherubim.”

⁵ tn Heb “from it”; the referent (“the same piece” of wrought metal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “from it were its horns,” meaning that they were made from the same piece.

⁷ sn The restoration of the faltering community continues in this chapter. First, Moses is instructed to make new tablets and take them to the mountain (1-4). Then, through the promised theophany God proclaims his moral character (5-8). Moses responds with the reiteration of the intercession (8), and God responds with the renewal of the covenant (10-28). To put these into expository form, as principles, the chapter would run as follows: I. God provides for spiritual renewal (1-4), II. God reminds people of his moral standard (5-9), III. God renews his covenant promises and stipulations (10-28).

⁸ tn The imperative is followed by the preposition with a suffix expressing the ethical dative; it strengthens the instruction for Moses. Interestingly, the verb “cut out, chisel, hew,” is the same verb from which the word for a “graven image” is derived – פָּסַל (pasal).

⁹ tn The perfect tense with vav consecutive makes the value of this verb equal to an imperfect tense, probably a simple future here.