Exodus 14:16

14:16 And as for you, ¹  lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that ²  the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.

Exodus 27:18

27:18 The length of the courtyard is to be one hundred fifty feet ³  and the width seventy-five feet, ⁴  and the height of the fine twisted linen hangings ⁵  is to be ⁶  seven and a half feet, with their bronze bases.

Exodus 28:32

28:32 There is to be an opening ⁷  in its top ⁸  in the center of it, with an edge all around the opening, the work of a weaver, ⁹  like the opening of a collar, ¹⁰  so that it cannot be torn. ¹¹ 

Exodus 39:40

39:40 the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and its bases, and the curtain for the gateway of the courtyard, its ropes and its tent pegs, and all the furnishings ¹²  for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

[14:16]  ¹ tn The conjunction plus pronoun (“and you”) is emphatic – “and as for you” – before the imperative “lift up.” In contrast, v. 17 begins with “and as for me, I….”

[14:16]  ² tn The imperfect (or jussive) with the vav (ו) is sequential, coming after the series of imperatives instructing Moses to divide the sea; the form then gives the purpose (or result) of the activity – “that they may go.”

[27:18]  ³ tn Heb “a hundred cubits.”

[27:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “fifty.” The text has “and the width fifty [cubits] with fifty.” This means that it is fifty cubits wide on the western end and fifty cubits wide on the eastern end.

[27:18]  ⁵ tn Here “hangings” has been supplied.

[27:18]  ⁶ tn Here the phrase “is to be” has been supplied.

[28:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “mouth” or “opening” (פִּי, pi; in construct).

[28:32]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ 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).

[39:40]  ⁷ tn Heb “utensils, vessels.”