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 32:13

32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants ⁵  like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about ⁶  I will give to your descendants, ⁷  and they will inherit it forever.’”

Exodus 16:31

16:31 The house of Israel ⁸  called its name “manna.” ⁹  It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted ¹⁰  like wafers with honey.

Exodus 28:43

28:43 These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter ¹¹  to the tent of meeting, or when they approach ¹²  the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die. ¹³  It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants ¹⁴  after him. ¹⁵ 

Exodus 33:1

33:1 The Lord said to Moses, “Go up ¹⁶  from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath ¹⁷  to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ ¹⁸ 

[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.”

[32:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “your seed.”

[32:13]  ⁶ tn “about” has been supplied.

[32:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “seed.”

[16:31]  ⁹ sn The name “house of Israel” is unusual in this context.

[16:31]  ¹⁰ tn Hebrew מָן (man).

[16:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “like seed of coriander, white, its taste was.”

[28:43]  ¹³ tn The construction for this temporal clause is the infinitive construct with the temporal preposition bet (ב) and the suffixed subjective genitive.

[28:43]  ¹⁴ tn This construction is also the temporal clause with the infinitive construct and the temporal preposition bet (ב) and the suffixed subjective genitive.

[28:43]  ¹⁵ tn The text has וְלאֹ־יִשְׂאוּ עָוֹן וָמֵתוּ (vÿlo’-yis’u ’avon vametu). The imperfect tense here introduces a final clause, yielding a purpose or result translation (“in order that” or “so that”). The last verb is the perfect tense with the vav consecutive, and so it too is equal to a final imperfect – but it would show the result of bearing the iniquity. The idea is that if they approached the holy things with a lack of modesty, perhaps like the pagans who have nakedness and sexuality as part of the religious ritual, they would pollute the holy things, and it would be reckoned to them for iniquity and they would die.

[28:43]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “seed.”

[28:43]  ¹⁷ sn So the priests were to make intercession for the people, give decisions from God’s revealed will, enter his presence in purity, and represent holiness to Yahweh. The clothing of the priests provided for these functions, but in a way that brought honor and dignity. A priest was, therefore, to serve in purity, holiness, and fear (Malachi). There is much that can be derived from this chapter to form principles of spiritual leadership, but the overall point can be worded this way: Those whom God selects to minister to the congregation through intercessory prayer, divine counsel, and sacrificial worship, must always represent the holiness of Yahweh in their activities and demeanor.

[33:1]  ¹⁷ tn The two imperatives underscore the immediacy of the demand: “go, go up,” meaning “get going up” or “be on your way.”

[33:1]  ¹⁸ tn Or “the land which I swore.”

[33:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “seed.”