Exodus 12:28

12:28 and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. ¹ 

Exodus 16:34

16:34 Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony ²  for safekeeping. ³ 

Exodus 35:4

Willing Workers

35:4 ⁴ Moses spoke to the whole community of the Israelites, “This is the word that the Lord has commanded:

Exodus 35:10

35:10 Every skilled person ⁵  among you is to come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

Exodus 38:22

38:22 Now Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the Lord had commanded Moses;

Exodus 39:29

39:29 The sash was of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, the work of an embroiderer, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 39:31

39:31 They attached to it a blue cord, to attach it to the turban above, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:19

40:19 Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:23

40:23 And he set the bread in order on it ⁶  before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:32

40:32 Whenever they entered ⁷  the tent of meeting, and whenever they approached ⁸  the altar, they would wash, ⁹  just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

[12:28]  ¹ tn Heb “went away and 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]  ² 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]  ³ tn “for keeping.”

[35:4]  ³ sn The book now turns to record how all the work of the sanctuary was done. This next unit picks up on the ideas in Exod 31:1-11. But it adds several features. The first part is the instruction of God for all people to give willingly (35:4-19); the next section tells how the faithful brought an offering for the service of the tabernacle (35:20-29); the next section tells how God set some apart with special gifts (35:30-35), and finally, the narrative reports how the faithful people of God enthusiastically began the work (36:1-7).

[35:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “wise of heart”; here also “heart” would be a genitive of specification, showing that there were those who could make skillful decisions.

[40:23]  ⁵ tn Heb uses a cognate accusative construction, “he arranged the arrangement.”

[40:32]  ⁶ tn The construction is the infinitive construct with the temporal preposition and the suffixed subjective genitive. This temporal clause indicates that the verb in the preceding verse was frequentative.

[40:32]  ⁷ tn This is another infinitive construct in a temporal clause.

[40:32]  ⁸ tn In this explanatory verse the verb is a customary imperfect.