Exodus 21:16

21:16 “Whoever kidnaps someone ¹  and sells him, ²  or is caught still holding him, ³  must surely be put to death.

Exodus 4:20

4:20 Then Moses took ⁴  his wife and sons ⁵  and put them on a donkey and headed back ⁶  to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

Exodus 22:4

22:4 If the stolen item should in fact be found ⁷  alive in his possession, ⁸  whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double. ⁹ 

Exodus 32:15

32:15 Moses turned and went down from the mountain with ¹⁰  the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides – they were written on the front and on the back.

Exodus 34:4

34:4 So Moses ¹¹  cut out two tablets of stone like the first; ¹²  early in the morning he went up ¹³  to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

[21:16]  ¹ tn Heb “a stealer of a man,” thus “anyone stealing a man.”

[21:16]  ² sn The implication is that it would be an Israelite citizen who was kidnapped and sold to a foreign tribe or country (like Joseph). There was always a market for slaves. The crime would be in forcibly taking the individual away from his home and religion and putting him into bondage or death.

[21:16]  ³ tn Literally “and he is found in his hand” (KJV and ASV both similar), being not yet sold.

[4:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “And Moses took.”

[4:20]  ⁵ sn Only Gershom has been mentioned so far. The other son’s name will be explained in chapter 18. The explanation of Gershom’s name was important to Moses’ sojourn in Midian. The explanation of the name Eliezer fits better in the later chapter (18:2-4).

[4:20]  ⁶ tn The verb would literally be rendered “and returned”; however, the narrative will record other happenings before he arrived in Egypt, so an ingressive nuance fits here – he began to return, or started back.

[22:4]  ⁷ tn The construction uses a Niphal infinitive absolute and a Niphal imperfect: if it should indeed be found. Gesenius says that in such conditional clauses the infinitive absolute has less emphasis, but instead emphasizes the condition on which some consequence depends (see GKC 342-43 §113.o).

[22:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “in his hand.”

[22:4]  ⁹ sn He must pay back one for what he took, and then one for the penalty – his loss as he was inflicting a loss on someone else.

[32:15]  ¹⁰ tn The disjunctive vav (ו) serves here as a circumstantial clause indicator.

[34:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified here and the name “Moses,” which occurs later in this verse, has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”), both for stylistic reasons.

[34:4]  ¹⁴ sn Deuteronomy says that Moses was also to make an ark of acacia wood before the tablets, apparently to put the tablets in until the sanctuary was built. But this ark may not have been the ark built later; or, it might be the wood box, but Bezalel still had to do all the golden work with it.

[34:4]  ¹⁵ tn The line reads “and Moses got up early in the morning and went up.” These verbs likely form a verbal hendiadys, the first one with its prepositional phrase serving in an adverbial sense.