Exodus 32:29

32:29 Moses said, “You have been consecrated ¹  today for the Lord, for each of you was against his son or against his brother, so he has given a blessing to you today.” ² 

Exodus 33:8

33:8 And when Moses went out ³  to the tent, all the people would get up ⁴  and stand at the entrance to their tents ⁵  and watch ⁶  Moses until he entered the tent. ⁷ 

Exodus 38:26

38:26 one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, ⁸  according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, ⁹  603,550 in all. ¹⁰ 

[32:29]  ¹ tn Heb “Your hand was filled.” The phrase “fill your hands” is a familiar expression having to do with commissioning and devotion to a task that is earlier used in 28:41; 29:9, 29, 33, 35. This has usually been explained as a Qal imperative. S. R. Driver explains it “Fill your hand today,” meaning, take a sacrifice to God and be installed in the priesthood (Exodus, 355). But it probably is a Piel perfect, meaning “they have filled your hands today,” or, “your hand was filled today.” This was an expression meant to say that they had been faithful to God even though it turned them against family and friends – but God would give them a blessing.

[32:29]  ² tn The text simply has “and to give on you today a blessing.” Gesenius notes that the infinitive construct seems to be attached with a vav (ו; like the infinitive absolute) as the continuation of a previous finite verb. He reads the verb “fill” as an imperative: “fill your hand today…and that to bring a blessing on you, i.e., that you may be blessed” (see GKC 351 §114.p). If the preceding verb is taken as perfect tense, however, then this would also be perfect – “he has blessed you today.”

[33:8]  ³ tn The clause is introduced again with “and it was.” The perfect tense here with the vav (ו) is used to continue the sequence of actions that were done repeatedly in the past (see GKC 331-32 §112.e). The temporal clause is then formed with the infinitive construct of יָצָא (yatsa’), with “Moses” as the subjective genitive: “and it was according to the going out of Moses.”

[33:8]  ⁴ tn Or “rise up.”

[33:8]  ⁵ tn The subject of this verb is specified with the individualizing use of “man”: “and all Israel would station themselves, each person (man) at the entrance to his tent.”

[33:8]  ⁶ tn The perfect tense with the vav (ו) continues the sequence of the customary imperfect. The people “would gaze” (after) Moses until he entered the tent.

[33:8]  ⁷ tn This is a temporal clause using an infinitive construct with a suffixed subject.

[38:26]  ⁵ sn The weight would be about half an ounce.

[38:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “upward.”

[38:26]  ⁷ tn The phrase “in all” has been supplied.