Exodus 35:2

35:2 In six days ¹  work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day ²  for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. ³  Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

Exodus 35:21

35:21 Everyone ⁴  whose heart stirred him to action ⁵  and everyone whose spirit was willing ⁶  came and brought the offering for the Lord for the work of the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments. ⁷ 

Exodus 35:25-26

35:25 Every woman who was skilled ⁸  spun with her hands and brought what she had spun, blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, 35:26 and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled ⁹  spun goats’ hair.

¹ tn This is an adverbial accusative of time.

² tn The word is קֹדֶשׁ (qodesh, “holiness”). S. R. Driver suggests that the word was transposed, and the line should read: “a sabbath of entire rest, holy to Jehovah” (Exodus, 379). But the word may simply be taken as a substitution for “holy day.”

³ sn See on this H. Routtenberg, “The Laws of the Sabbath: Biblical Sources,” Dor le Dor 6 (1977): 41-43, 99-101, 153-55, 204-6; G. Robinson, “The Idea of Rest in the Old Testament and the Search for the Basic Character of Sabbath,” ZAW 92 (1980): 32-43.

⁴ tn Heb “man.”

⁵ tn The verb means “lift up, bear, carry.” Here the subject is “heart” or will, and so the expression describes one moved within to act.

⁶ tn Heb “his spirit made him willing.” The verb is used in Scripture for the freewill offering that people brought (Lev 7).

⁷ tn Literally “the garments of holiness,” the genitive is the attributive genitive, marking out what type of garments these were.

⁸ tn Heb “wisdom of heart,” which means that they were skilled and could make all the right choices about the work.

⁹ tn The text simply uses a prepositional phrase, “with/in wisdom.” It seems to be qualifying “the women” as the relative clause is.