Discovery BoxExodus 12:18
Context12:18 In the first month, 1 from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.
Exodus 26:2
Context26:2 The length of each 2 curtain is to be forty-two feet, and the width of each curtain is to be six feet 3 – the same size for each of the curtains.
Exodus 27:16
Context27:16 For the gate of the courtyard there is to be a curtain of thirty feet, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and their four bases.
Exodus 30:13
Context30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered 4 is to pay this: a half shekel 5 according to the shekel of the sanctuary 6 (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering 7 to the Lord.
Exodus 36:9
Context36:9 The length of one curtain was forty-two feet, and the width of one curtain was six feet – the same size for each of the curtains.
[12:18] 1 tn “month” has been supplied.
[26:2] 2 tn Heb “one” (so KJV).
[26:2] 3 tn Heb “twenty-eight cubits” long and “four cubits” wide.
[30:13] 3 sn Each man was to pass in front of the counting officer and join those already counted on the other side.
[30:13] 4 sn The half shekel weight of silver would be about one-fifth of an ounce (6 grams).
[30:13] 5 sn It appears that some standard is in view for the amount of a shekel weight. The sanctuary shekel is sometimes considered to be twice the value of the ordinary shekel. The “gerah,” also of uncertain meaning, was mentioned as a reference point for the ancient reader to understand the value of the required payment. It may also be that the expression meant “a sacred shekel” and looked at the purpose more – a shekel for sanctuary dues. This would mean that the standard of the shekel weight was set because it was the traditional amount of sacred dues (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 333). “Though there is no certainty, the shekel is said to weigh about 11,5 grams…Whether an official standard is meant [by ‘sanctuary shekel’] or whether the sanctuary shekel had a different weight than the ‘ordinary’ shekel is not known” (C. Houtman, Exodus, 3:181).
