Exodus 3:22

3:22 Every ¹  woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying ²  in her house for items of silver and gold ³  and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters – thus you will plunder Egypt!” ⁴ 

Exodus 11:2

11:2 Instruct ⁵  the people that each man and each woman is to request ⁶  from his or her neighbor ⁷  items of silver and gold.” ⁸ 

Exodus 21:32

21:32 If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner ⁹  must pay thirty shekels of silver, ¹⁰  and the ox must be stoned. ¹¹ 

Exodus 22:7

22:7 “If a man gives his neighbor money or articles ¹²  for safekeeping, ¹³  and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, ¹⁴  he must repay double.

Exodus 22:25

22:25 “If you lend money to any of ¹⁵  my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender ¹⁶  to him; do not charge ¹⁷  him interest. ¹⁸ 

Exodus 26:21

26:21 and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.

Exodus 26:25

26:25 So there are to be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under the first frame, and two bases under the next frame.

Exodus 26:32

26:32 You are to hang it ¹⁹  with gold hooks ²⁰  on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set in ²¹  four silver bases.

Exodus 27:11

27:11 Likewise ²²  for its length on the north side, there are to be ²³  hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands ²⁴  on the posts.

Exodus 36:26

36:26 and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame and two bases under the next ²⁵  frame.

Exodus 36:30

36:30 So there were eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, two bases under each frame.

Exodus 36:36

36:36 He made for it four posts of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, with gold hooks, ²⁶  and he cast for them four silver bases.

Exodus 38:11-12

38:11 For the north side the hangings were ²⁷  one hundred fifty feet, with their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 38:12 For the west side there were ²⁸  hangings seventy-five feet long, with ²⁹  their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

[3:22]  ¹ tn Heb “a woman,” one representing all.

[3:22]  ² tn Heb “from the sojourner.” Both the “neighbor” and the “sojourner” (“one who happens to be staying in her house”) are feminine. The difference between them seems to be primarily that the second is temporary, “a lodger” perhaps or “visitor,” while the first has permanent residence.

[3:22]  ³ tn Heb “vessels of silver and vessels of gold.” These phrases both use genitives of material, telling what the vessels are made of.

[3:22]  ⁴ sn It is clear that God intended the Israelites to plunder the Egyptians, as they might a defeated enemy in war. They will not go out “empty.” They will “plunder” Egypt. This verb (וְנִצַּלְתֶּם [vÿnitsaltem] from נָצַל [natsal]) usually means “rescue, deliver,” as if plucking out of danger. But in this stem it carries the idea of plunder. So when the text says that they will ask (וְשָׁאֲלָה, vÿsha’alah) their neighbors for things, it implies that they will be making many demands, and the Egyptians will respond like a defeated nation before victors. The spoils that Israel takes are to be regarded as back wages or compensation for the oppression (see also Deut 15:13). See further B. Jacob, “The Gifts of the Egyptians, a Critical Commentary,” Journal of Reformed Judaism 27 (1980): 59-69; and T. C. Vriezen, “A Reinterpretation of Exodus 3:21-22 and Related Texts,” Ex Oriente Lux 23 (1975): 389-401.

[11:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “Speak now in the ears of the people.” The expression is emphatic; it seeks to ensure that the Israelites hear the instruction.

[11:2]  ⁶ tn The verb translated “request” is וְיִשְׁאֲלוּ (vÿyish’alu), the Qal jussive: “let them ask.” This is the point introduced in Exod 3:22. The meaning of the verb might be stronger than simply “ask”; it might have something of the idea of “implore” (see also its use in the naming of Samuel, who was “asked” from Yahweh [1 Sam 1:20]).

[11:2]  ⁷ tn “each man is to request from his neighbor and each woman from her neighbor.”

[11:2]  ⁸ sn See D. Skinner, “Some Major Themes of Exodus,” Mid-America Theological Journal 1 (1977): 31-42.

[21:32]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the owner) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:32]  ¹⁰ sn A shekel was a unit for measure by means of a scale. Both the weight and the value of a shekel of silver are hard to determine. “Though there is no certainty, the shekel is said to weigh about 11,5 grams” (C. Houtman, Exodus, 3:181). Over four hundred years earlier, Joseph was sold into Egypt for 20 shekels. The free Israelite citizen was worth about 50 shekels (Lev 27:3f.).

[21:32]  ¹¹ sn See further B. S. Jackson, “The Goring Ox Again [Ex. 21,28-36],” JJP 18 (1974): 55-94.

[22:7]  ¹³ tn The word usually means “vessels” but can have the sense of household goods and articles. It could be anything from jewels and ornaments to weapons or pottery.

[22:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to keep.” Here “safekeeping,” that is, to keep something secure on behalf of a third party, is intended.

[22:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “found.”

[22:25]  ¹⁷ tn “any of” has been supplied.

[22:25]  ¹⁸ sn The moneylender will be demanding and exacting. In Ps 109:11 and 2 Kgs 4:1 the word is rendered as “extortioner.”

[22:25]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “set.”

[22:25]  ²⁰ sn In ancient times money was lent primarily for poverty and not for commercial ventures (H. Gamoran, “The Biblical Law against Loans on Interest,” JNES 30 [1971]: 127-34). The lending to the poor was essentially a charity, and so not to be an opportunity to make money from another person’s misfortune. The word נֶשֶׁךְ (neshekh) may be derived from a verb that means “to bite,” and so the idea of usury or interest was that of putting out one’s money with a bite in it (See S. Stein, “The Laws on Interest in the Old Testament,” JTS 4 [1953]: 161-70; and E. Neufeld, “The Prohibition against Loans at Interest in the Old Testament,” HUCA 26 [1955]: 355-412).

[26:32]  ²¹ tn Heb “put it.”

[26:32]  ²² tn This clause simply says “and their hooks gold,” but is taken as a circumstantial clause telling how the veil will be hung.

[26:32]  ²³ tn Heb “on four silver bases.”

[27:11]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and thus.”

[27:11]  ²⁶ tn Here the phrase “there will be” has been supplied.

[27:11]  ²⁷ sn These bands have been thought by some to refer to connecting rods joining the tops of the posts. But it is more likely that they are bands or bind rings surrounding the posts at the base of the capitals (see 38:17).

[36:26]  ²⁹ tn Heb “under the one frame” again.

[36:36]  ³³ tn Heb “and their hooks gold.”

[38:11]  ³⁷ tn Here the phrase “the hangings were” has been supplied.

[38:12]  ⁴¹ tn The phrase “there were” has been supplied.

[38:12]  ⁴² tn The text simply has “their posts ten and their bases ten”; this may be added here as a circumstantial clause with the main sentence in order to make sense out of the construction.