Exodus 1:20

1:20 So God treated the midwives well, ¹  and the people multiplied and became very strong.

Exodus 2:8

2:8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Yes, do so.” ²  So the young girl ³  went and got ⁴  the child’s mother. ⁵ 

Exodus 12:50

12:50 So all the Israelites did exactly as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. ⁶ 

Exodus 16:34

16:34 Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony ⁷  for safekeeping. ⁸ 

Exodus 18:24

18:24 Moses listened to ⁹  his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

Exodus 19:7

19:7 So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him,

Exodus 24:13

24:13 So Moses set out ¹⁰  with ¹¹  Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.

Exodus 27:5

27:5 You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come ¹²  halfway up the altar. ¹³ 

[1:20]  ¹ tn The verb וַיֵּיטֶב (vayyetev) is the Hiphil preterite of יָטַב (yatav). In this stem the word means “to cause good, treat well, treat favorably.” The vav (ו) consecutive shows that this favor from God was a result of their fearing and obeying him.

[2:8]  ² tn Heb “Go” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “Go ahead”; TEV “Please do.”

[2:8]  ³ sn The word used to describe the sister (Miriam probably) is עַלְמָה (’alma), the same word used in Isa 7:14, where it is usually translated either “virgin” or “young woman.” The word basically means a young woman who is ripe for marriage. This would indicate that Miriam is a teenager and so about fifteen years older than Moses.

[2:8]  ⁴ tn Heb קָרָא (qara’, “called”).

[2:8]  ⁵ sn During this period of Egyptian history the royal palaces were in the northern or Delta area of Egypt, rather than up the Nile as in later periods. The proximity of the royal residences to the Israelites makes this and the plague narratives all the more realistic. Such direct contact would have been unlikely if Moses had had to travel up the Nile to meet with Pharaoh. In the Delta area things were closer. Here all the people would have had access to the tributaries of the Nile near where the royal family came, but the royal family probably had pavilions and hunting lodges in the area. See also N. Osborn, “Where on Earth Are We? Problems of Position and Movement in Space,” BT 31 (1980): 239-42.

[12:50]  ³ tn Heb “did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.” The final phrase “so they did,” which is somewhat redundant in English, has been represented in the translation by the adverb “exactly.”

[16:34]  ⁴ sn The “Testimony” is a reference to the Ark of the Covenant; so the pot of manna would be placed before Yahweh in the tabernacle. W. C. Kaiser says that this later instruction came from a time after the tabernacle had been built (see Exod 25:10-22; W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:405). This is not a problem since the final part of this chapter had to have been included at the end of the forty years in the desert.

[16:34]  ⁵ tn “for keeping.”

[18:24]  ⁵ tn The idiom “listen to the voice of” means “obey, comply with, heed.”

[24:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he arose” meaning “started to go.”

[24:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “and.”

[27:5]  ⁷ tn The verb is the verb “to be,” here the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. It is “and it will be” or “that it may be,” or here “that it may come” halfway up.

[27:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “to the half of the altar.”