32:15 Moses turned and went down from the mountain with 3 the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides – they were written on the front and on the back.
1 tn Literally “cubit.”
2 sn U. Cassuto states the following: “To the north and to the south, since the tent curtains were thirty cubits long, there were ten cubits left over on each side; these covered the nine cubits of the curtains of the tabernacle and also the bottom cubit of the boards, which the tabernacle curtains did not suffice to cover. It is to this that v. 13 refers” (Exodus, 353).
3 tn The disjunctive vav (ו) serves here as a circumstantial clause indicator.
5 sn Since it was a small altar, it needed only two rings, one on either side, in order to be carried. The second clause clarifies that the rings should be on the sides, the right and the left, as you approach the altar.
6 tn Heb “And it”; this refers to the rings collectively in their placement on the box, and so the word “rings” has been used to clarify the referent for the modern reader.
7 tn Heb “for houses.”