Exodus 12:9

12:9 Do not eat it raw ¹  or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.

Exodus 26:24

26:24 At the two corners ²  they must be doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So it will be for both.

Exodus 28:32

28:32 There is to be an opening ³  in its top ⁴  in the center of it, with an edge all around the opening, the work of a weaver, ⁵  like the opening of a collar, ⁶  so that it cannot be torn. ⁷ 

Exodus 36:29

36:29 At the two corners ⁸  they were doubled at the lower end and ⁹  finished together at the top in one ring. So he did for both.

[12:9]  ¹ sn This ruling was to prevent their eating it just softened by the fire or partially roasted as differing customs might prescribe or allow.

[26:24]  ² tn Heb “they will be for the two corners.” This is the last clause of the verse, moved forward for clarity.

[28:32]  ³ tn Heb “mouth” or “opening” (פִּי, pi; in construct).

[28:32]  ⁴ tn The “mouth of its head” probably means its neck; it may be rendered “the opening for the head,” except the pronominal suffix would have to refer to Aaron, and that is not immediately within the context.

[28:32]  ⁵ tn Or “woven work” (KJV, ASV, NASB), that is, “the work of a weaver.” The expression suggests that the weaving was from the fabric edges itself and not something woven and then added to the robe. It was obviously intended to keep the opening from fraying.

[28:32]  ⁶ tn The expression כְּפִי תַחְרָא (kÿfi takhra’) is difficult. It was early rendered “like the opening of a coat of mail.” It occurs only here and in the parallel 39:23. Tg. Onq. has “coat of mail.” S. R. Driver suggests “a linen corselet,” after the Greek (Exodus, 308). See J. Cohen, “A Samaritan Authentication of the Rabbinic Interpretation of kephi tahra’,” VT 24 (1974): 361-66.

[28:32]  ⁷ tn The verb is the Niphal imperfect, here given the nuance of potential imperfect. Here it serves in a final clause (purpose/result), introduced only by the negative (see GKC 503-4 §165.a).

[36:29]  ⁴ tn This is the last phrase of the verse, moved forward for clarity.

[36:29]  ⁵ tn This difficult verse uses the perfect tense at the beginning, and the second clause parallels it with יִהְיוּ (yihyu), which has to be taken here as a preterite without the consecutive vav (ו). The predicate “finished” or “completed” is the word תָּמִּים (tammim); it normally means “complete, sound, whole,” and related words describe the sacrifices as without blemish.