Exodus 25:3

25:3 This is the offering you ¹  are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

Exodus 12:5

12:5 Your lamb must be ²  perfect, ³  a male, one year old; ⁴  you may take ⁵  it from the sheep or from the goats.

Exodus 16:16

16:16 “This is what ⁶  the Lord has commanded: ⁷  ‘Each person is to gather ⁸  from it what he can eat, an omer ⁹  per person ¹⁰  according to the number ¹¹  of your people; ¹²  each one will pick it up ¹³  for whoever lives ¹⁴  in his tent.’”

Exodus 25:2

25:2 “Tell the Israelites to take ¹⁵  an offering ¹⁶  for me; from every person motivated by a willing ¹⁷  heart you ¹⁸  are to receive my offering.

[25:3]  ¹ tn The pronoun is plural.

[12:5]  ² tn The construction has: “[The] lamb…will be to you.” This may be interpreted as a possessive use of the lamed, meaning, “[the] lamb…you have” (your lamb) for the Passover. In the context instructing the people to take an animal for this festival, the idea is that the one they select, their animal, must meet these qualifications.

[12:5]  ³ tn The Hebrew word תָּמִים (tamim) means “perfect” or “whole” or “complete” in the sense of not having blemishes and diseases – no physical defects. The rules for sacrificial animals applied here (see Lev 22:19-21; Deut 17:1).

[12:5]  ⁴ tn The idiom says “a son of a year” (בֶּן־שָׁנָה, ben shanah), meaning a “yearling” or “one year old” (see GKC 418 §128.v).

[12:5]  ⁵ tn Because a choice is being given in this last clause, the imperfect tense nuance of permission should be used. They must have a perfect animal, but it may be a sheep or a goat. The verb’s object “it” is supplied from the context.

[16:16]  ³ tn Heb “the thing that.”

[16:16]  ⁴ tn The perfect tense could be taken as a definite past with Moses now reporting it. In this case a very recent past. But in declaring the word from Yahweh it could be instantaneous, and receive a present tense translation – “here and now he commands you.”

[16:16]  ⁵ tn The form is the plural imperative: “Gather [you] each man according to his eating.”

[16:16]  ⁶ sn The omer is an amount mentioned only in this chapter, and its size is unknown, except by comparison with the ephah (v. 36). A number of recent English versions approximate the omer as “two quarts” (cf. NCV, CEV, NLT); TEV “two litres.”

[16:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “for a head.”

[16:16]  ⁸ tn The word “number” is an accusative that defines more precisely how much was to be gathered (see GKC 374 §118.h).

[16:16]  ⁹ tn Traditionally “souls.”

[16:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will take.”

[16:16]  ¹¹ tn “lives” has been supplied.

[25:2]  ⁴ tn The verb is וְיִקְחוּ (vÿyiqkhu), the Qal imperfect or jussive with vav; after the imperative “speak” this verb indicates the purpose or result: “speak…that they may take” and continues with the force of a command.

[25:2]  ⁵ tn The “offering” (תְּרוּמָה, tÿrumah) is perhaps better understood as a contribution since it was a freewill offering. There is some question about the etymology of the word. The traditional meaning of “heave-offering” derives from the idea of “elevation,” a root meaning “to be high” lying behind the word. B. Jacob says it is something sorted out of a mass of material and designated for a higher purpose (Exodus, 765). S. R. Driver (Exodus, 263) corrects the idea of “heave-offering” by relating the root to the Hiphil form of that root, herim, “to lift” or “take off.” He suggests the noun means “what is taken off” from a larger mass and so designated for sacred purposes. The LXX has “something taken off.”

[25:2]  ⁶ tn The verb יִדְּבֶנּוּ (yiddÿvennu) is related to the word for the “freewill offering” (נְדָבָה, nÿdavah). The verb is used of volunteering for military campaigns (Judg 5:2, 9) and the willing offerings for both the first and second temples (see 1 Chr 29:5, 6, 9, 14, 17).

[25:2]  ⁷ tn The pronoun is plural.