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.

Exodus 35:1

Sabbath Regulations

35:1 Moses assembled the whole community of the Israelites and said to them, “These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. ¹⁰ 

Exodus 29:5

29:5 and take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, ¹¹  the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastpiece; you are to fasten the ephod on him by using the skillfully woven waistband. ¹² 

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.

¹⁰ tn Heb “to do them”; this is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.

¹¹ tn The Hiphil of לָבַשׁ (lavash, “to clothe”) will take double accusatives; so the sign of the accusative is with Aaron, and then with the articles of clothing. The translation will have to treat Aaron as the direct object and the articles as indirect objects, because Aaron receives the prominence in the verse – you will clothe Aaron.

¹² tn The verb used in this last clause is a denominative verb from the word for ephod. And so “ephod the ephod on him” means “fasten as an ephod the ephod on him” (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 316).