Exodus 28:35

28:35 The robe ¹  is to be on Aaron as he ministers, ²  and his sound will be heard ³  when he enters the Holy Place before the Lord and when he leaves, so that he does not die.

Exodus 32:34

32:34 So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, ⁴  my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.” ⁵ 

[28:35]  ¹ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the robe) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:35]  ² tn The form is a Piel infinitive construct with the lamed (ל) preposition: “to minister” or “to serve.” It may be taken epexegetically here, “while serving,” although S. R. Driver takes it as a purpose, “in order that he may minister” (Exodus, 308). The point then would be that he dare not enter into the Holy Place without wearing it.

[28:35]  ³ sn God would hear the bells and be reminded that this priest was in his presence representing the nation and that the priest had followed the rules of the sanctuary by wearing the appropriate robes with their attachments.

[32:34]  ⁴ tn Heb “behold, look.” Moses should take this fact into consideration.

[32:34]  ⁵ sn The Law said that God would not clear the guilty. But here the punishment is postponed to some future date when he would revisit this matter. Others have taken the line to mean that whenever a reckoning was considered necessary, then this sin would be included (see B. Jacob, Exodus, 957). The repetition of the verb traditionally rendered “visit” in both clauses puts emphasis on the certainty – so “indeed.”