34:21 “On six days 1 you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; 2 even at the time of plowing and of harvest 3 you are to rest. 4
34:22 “You must observe 5 the Feast of Weeks – the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat – and the Feast of Ingathering at the end 6 of the year. 34:23 At three times 7 in the year all your men 8 must appear before the Lord God, 9 the God of Israel.
1 tn This is an adverbial accusative of time.
2 tn Or “cease” (i.e., from the labors).
3 sn See M. Dahood, “Vocative lamed in Exodus 2,4 and Merismus in 34,21,” Bib 62 (1981): 413-15.
4 tn The imperfect tense expresses injunction or instruction.
5 tn The imperfect tense means “you will do”; it is followed by the preposition with a suffix to express the ethical dative to stress the subject.
6 tn The expression is “the turn of the year,” which is parallel to “the going out of the year,” and means the end of the agricultural season.
9 tn “Three times” is an adverbial accusative.
10 tn Heb “all your males.”
11 tn Here the divine name reads in Hebrew הָאָדֹן יְהוָה (ha’adon yÿhvah), which if rendered according to the traditional scheme of “