Exodus 26:17

26:17 with two projections ¹  per frame parallel one to another. ²  You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Exodus 33:4

33:4 When the people heard this troubling word ³  they mourned; ⁴  no one put on his ornaments.

Exodus 36:9

36:9 The length of one curtain was forty-two feet, and the width of one curtain was six feet – the same size for each of the curtains.

[26:17]  ¹ sn Heb “hands,” the reference is probably to projections that served as stays or supports. They may have been tenons, or pegs, projecting from the bottom of the frames to hold the frames in their sockets (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 286).

[26:17]  ² tn Or “being joined each to the other.”

[33:4]  ³ tn Or “bad news” (NAB, NCV).

[33:4]  ⁴ sn The people would rather have risked divine discipline than to go without Yahweh in their midst. So they mourned, and they took off the ornaments. Such had been used in making the golden calf, and so because of their association with all of that they were to be removed as a sign of remorse.