Exodus 30:21

30:21 they must wash ¹  their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this ²  will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants ³  throughout their generations.” ⁴ 

Exodus 31:18

31:18 He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God. ⁵ 

Exodus 40:5

40:5 You are to put ⁶  the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

Exodus 40:20

40:20 He took the testimony and put it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark, and then put the atonement lid on the ark.

[30:21]  ¹ tn Heb “and [then] they will wash.”

[30:21]  ² tn The verb is “it will be.”

[30:21]  ³ tn Heb “for his seed.”

[30:21]  ⁴ tn Or “for generations to come”; it literally is “to their generations.”

[31:18]  ⁵ sn The expression “the finger of God” has come up before in the book, in the plagues (Exod 8:15) to express that it was a demonstration of the power and authority of God. So here too the commandments given to Moses on stone tablets came from God. It too is a bold anthropomorphism; to attribute such a material action to Yahweh would have been thought provoking to say the least. But by using “God” and by stating it in an obviously figurative way, balance is maintained. Since no one writes with one finger, the expression simply says that the Law came directly from God.

[40:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “give” (also four additional times in vv. 6-8).