Exodus 2:13

2:13 When he went out ¹  the next day, ²  there were ³  two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong, ⁴  “Why are you attacking ⁵  your fellow Hebrew?” ⁶ 

Exodus 25:32

25:32 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, ⁷  three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. ⁸ 

Exodus 28:5

28:5 The artisans ⁹  are to use ¹⁰  the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.

Exodus 29:41

29:41 The second lamb you are to offer around sundown; you are to prepare for it the same meal offering as for the morning and the same drink offering, for a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Exodus 35:25

35:25 Every woman who was skilled ¹¹  spun with her hands and brought what she had spun, blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen,

Exodus 37:18

37:18 Six branches were extending from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it.

Exodus 38:23

38:23 and with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an artisan, a designer, and an embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.

Exodus 39:3

39:3 They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave ¹²  them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer.

[2:13]  ¹ tn The preterite with the vav consecutive is subordinated to the main idea of the verse.

[2:13]  ² tn Heb “the second day” (so KJV, ASV).

[2:13]  ³ tn The deictic particle is used here to predicate existence, as in “here were” or “there were.” But this use of הִנֵּה (hinneh) indicates also that what he encountered was surprising or sudden – as in “Oh, look!”

[2:13]  ⁴ tn The word רָשָׁע (rasha’) is a legal term, meaning the guilty. This guilty man rejects Moses’ intervention for much the same reason Pharaoh will later (5:2) – he does not recognize his authority. Later Pharaoh will use this term to declare himself as in the wrong (9:27) and God in the right.

[2:13]  ⁵ tn This is the third use of the verb נָכָה (nakha) in the passage; here it is the Hiphil imperfect. It may be given a progressive imperfect nuance – the attack was going on when Moses tried to intervene.

[2:13]  ⁶ sn Heb “your neighbor.” The word רֵעֶךָ (re’ekha) appears again in 33:11 to describe the ease with which God and Moses conversed. The Law will have much to say about how the Israelites were to treat their “neighbors, fellow citizens” (Exod 20:16-17; 21:14, 18, 35; 22:7-11, 14, 26; cf. Luke 10:25-37).

[25:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “from the sides of it.”

[25:32]  ⁸ tn Heb “from the second side.”

[28:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they.” The word “artisans” is supplied as the referent of the pronoun, a connection that is clearer in Hebrew than in English.

[28:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “receive” or “take.”

[35:25]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “wisdom of heart,” which means that they were skilled and could make all the right choices about the work.

[39:3]  ²⁵ tn The verb is the infinitive that means “to do, to work.” It could be given a literal rendering: “to work [them into] the blue….” Weaving or embroidering is probably what is intended.