Exodus 34:33

34:33 When Moses finished ¹  speaking ²  with them, he would ³  put a veil on his face.

Exodus 34:35

34:35 When the Israelites would see ⁴  the face of Moses, that ⁵  the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord. ⁶ 

[34:33]  ¹ tn Heb “and Moses finished”; the clause is subordinated as a temporal clause to the next clause.

[34:33]  ² tn The Piel infinitive construct is the object of the preposition; the whole phrase serves as the direct object of the verb “finished.”

[34:33]  ³ tn Throughout this section the actions of Moses and the people are frequentative. The text tells what happened regularly.

[34:35]  ⁴ tn Now the perfect tense with vav consecutive is subordinated to the next clause, “Moses returned the veil….”

[34:35]  ⁵ tn Verbs of seeing often take two accusatives. Here, the second is the noun clause explaining what it was about the face that they saw.

[34:35]  ⁶ tn Heb “with him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.