Exodus 23:25

23:25 You must serve ¹  the Lord your God, and he ²  will bless your bread and your water, ³  and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Exodus 35:13

35:13 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the Bread of the Presence;

Exodus 40:23

40:23 And he set the bread in order on it ⁴  before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

[23:25]  ¹ tn The perfect tense, masculine plural, with vav (ו) consecutive is in sequence with the preceding: do not bow down to them, but serve Yahweh. It is then the equivalent of an imperfect of instruction or injunction.

[23:25]  ² tn The LXX reads “and I will bless” to make the verb conform with the speaker, Yahweh.

[23:25]  ³ sn On this unusual clause B. Jacob says that it is the reversal of the curse in Genesis, because the “bread and water” represent the field work and ground suitability for abundant blessing of provisions (Exodus, 734).

[40:23]  ⁴ tn Heb uses a cognate accusative construction, “he arranged the arrangement.”