Exodus 14:31

14:31 When Israel saw ¹  the great power ²  that the Lord had exercised ³  over the Egyptians, they ⁴  feared the Lord, and they believed in ⁵  the Lord and in his servant Moses. ⁶ 

Exodus 18:9

18:9 Jethro rejoiced ⁷  because of all the good that the Lord had done for Israel, whom he had delivered from the hand of Egypt.

Exodus 32:21

32:21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

Exodus 36:11

36:11 He made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in the first set; he did the same along the edge of the end curtain in the second set.

Exodus 36:17

36:17 He made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain that joined the second set.

Exodus 36:22

36:22 with ⁸  two projections per frame parallel one to another. ⁹  He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Exodus 36:29

36:29 At the two corners ¹⁰  they were doubled at the lower end and ¹¹  finished together at the top in one ring. So he did for both.

Exodus 36:34-35

36:34 He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold to provide places ¹²  for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.

36:35 He made the special curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; he made ¹³  it with cherubim, the work of an artistic designer.

Exodus 37:8

37:8 one cherub on one end ¹⁴  and one cherub on the other end. ¹⁵  He made the cherubim from the atonement lid on its two ends.

Exodus 37:17

The Making of the Lampstand

37:17 He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were from the same piece. ¹⁶ 

Exodus 37:27

37:27 He also made ¹⁷  two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, ¹⁸  as places ¹⁹  for poles to carry it with.

Exodus 38:7

38:7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar ²⁰  hollow, out of boards.

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 38:28

38:28 From the remaining 1,775 shekels ²¹  he made hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and made bands for them.

[14:31]  ¹ tn The preterite with the vav (ו) consecutive introduces a clause that is subordinate to the main points that the verse is making.

[14:31]  ² tn Heb “the great hand,” with “hand” being a metonymy for work or power. The word play using “hand” contrasts the Lord’s hand/power at work on behalf of the Israelites with the hand/power of Egypt that would have killed them.

[14:31]  ³ tn Heb “did, made.”

[14:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the people feared.”

[14:31]  ⁵ tn The verb is the Hiphil preterite of אָמַן (’aman).

[14:31]  ⁶ sn Here the title of “servant” is given to Moses. This is the highest title a mortal can have in the OT – the “servant of Yahweh.” It signifies more than a believer; it describes the individual as acting on behalf of God. For example, when Moses stretched out his hand, God used it as his own (Isa 63:12). Moses was God’s personal representative. The chapter records both a message of salvation and of judgment. Like the earlier account of deliverance at the Passover, this chapter can be a lesson on deliverance from present troubles – if God could do this for Israel, there is no trouble too great for him to overcome. The passage can also be understood as a picture (at least) of the deliverance at the final judgment on the world. But the Israelites used this account for a paradigm of the power of God: namely, God is able to deliver his people from danger because he is the sovereign Lord of creation. His people must learn to trust him, even in desperate situations; they must fear him and not the situation. God can bring any threat to an end by bringing his power to bear in judgment on the wicked.

[18:9]  ⁷ tn The word חָדָה (khada) is rare, occurring only in Job 3:6 and Ps 21:6, although it is common in Aramaic. The LXX translated it “he shuddered.” U. Cassuto suggests that that rendering was based on the midrashic interpretation in b. Sanhedrin 94b, “he felt cuts in his body” – a wordplay on the verb (Exodus, 215-16).

[36:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “two hands to the one frame.”

[36:22]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “joined one to one.”

[36:29]  ¹⁹ tn This is the last phrase of the verse, moved forward for clarity.

[36:29]  ²⁰ 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.

[36:34]  ²⁵ tn Literally “houses”; i.e., places to hold the bars.

[36:35]  ³¹ tn The verb is simply “he made” but as in Exod 26:31 it probably means that the cherubim were worked into the curtain with the yarn, and so embroidered on the curtain.

[37:8]  ³⁷ tn Heb “from/at [the] end, from this.”

[37:8]  ³⁸ tn The repetition of the expression indicates it has the distributive sense.

[37:17]  ⁴³ tn Heb “from it”; the referent (“the same piece” of wrought metal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[37:27]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “and he made.”

[37:27]  ⁵⁰ sn Since it was a small altar, it needed only two rings, one on either side, in order to be carried. The second mention of their location clarifies that they should be on the sides, the right and the left, as one approached the altar.

[37:27]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “for houses.”

[38:7]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the altar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[38:28]  ⁶¹ tn Here the word “shekels” is understood; about 45 pounds.