Exodus 24:2

24:2 Moses alone may come ¹  near the Lord, but the others ²  must not come near, ³  nor may the people go up with him.”

Exodus 28:5

28:5 The artisans ⁴  are to use ⁵  the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.

Exodus 38:17

38:17 The bases for the posts were bronze. The hooks of the posts and their bands were silver, their tops were overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the courtyard had silver bands. ⁶ 

Exodus 36:3

36:3 and they received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to do ⁷  the work for the service of the sanctuary, and they still continued to bring him a freewill offering each morning. ⁸ 

¹ tn The verb is a perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive; it and the preceding perfect tense follow the imperative, and so have either a force of instruction, or, as taken here, are the equivalent of an imperfect tense (of permission).

² tn Heb “they.”

³ tn Now the imperfect tense negated is used; here the prohibition would fit (“they will not come near”), or the obligatory (“they must not”) in which the subjects are obliged to act – or not act in this case.

⁴ tn Heb “and they.” The word “artisans” is supplied as the referent of the pronoun, a connection that is clearer in Hebrew than in English.

⁵ tn Heb “receive” or “take.”

⁷ tn Heb “they were banded with silver.”

¹⁰ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive “to do it” comes after “sanctuary”; it makes a smoother rendering in English to move it forward, rather than reading “brought for the work.”

¹¹ tn Heb “in the morning, in the morning.”