Exodus 34:11

34:11 “Obey ¹  what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out ²  before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Exodus 39:7

39:7 He put ³  them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 39:26

39:26 There was ⁴  a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe, to be used in ministering, ⁵  just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 39:32

Moses Inspects the Sanctuary

39:32 ⁶ So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses – they did it exactly so.

Exodus 39:43

39:43 Moses inspected ⁷  all the work – and ⁸  they had done it just as the Lord had commanded – they had done it exactly – and Moses blessed them. ⁹ 

Exodus 40:21

40:21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung ¹⁰  the protecting curtain, ¹¹  and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

¹ tn The covenant duties begin with this command to “keep well” what is being commanded. The Hebrew expression is “keep for you”; the preposition and the suffix form the ethical dative, adding strength to the imperative.

² tn Again, this is the futur instans use of the participle.

³ tn Or “attached.”

⁵ tn The words “there was” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn The infinitive “to minister” is present; “to be used” is supplied from the context.

⁷ sn The last sections of the book bring several themes together to a full conclusion. Not only is it the completion of the tabernacle, it is the fulfillment of God’s plan revealed at the beginning of the book, i.e., to reside with his people.

⁹ tn Or “examined” (NASB, TEV); NCV “looked closely at.”

¹⁰ tn The deictic particle draws attention to what he saw in such a way as to give the reader Moses’ point of view and a sense of his pleasure: “and behold, they…”

¹¹ sn The situation and wording in Exod 39:43 are reminiscent of Gen 1:28 and 31, with the motifs of blessing people and inspecting what has been made.

¹¹ tn Heb “set up,” if it includes more than the curtain.

¹² tn Or “shielding” (NIV); Heb “the veil of the covering” (cf. KJV).