Exodus 34:33-35

34:33 When Moses finished ¹  speaking ²  with them, he would ³  put a veil on his face. 34:34 But when Moses went in ⁴  before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. ⁵  Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded. ⁶  34:35 When the Israelites would see ⁷  the face of Moses, that ⁸  the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord. ⁹ 

[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.

[34:34]  ⁴ tn The construction uses a infinitive construct for the temporal clause; it is prefixed with the temporal preposition: “and in the going in of Moses.”

[34:34]  ⁵ tn The temporal clause begins with the temporal preposition “until,” followed by an infinitive construct with the suffixed subjective genitive.

[34:34]  ⁶ tn The form is the Pual imperfect, but since the context demands a past tense here, in fact a past perfect tense, this is probably an old preterite form without a vav consecutive.

[34:35]  ⁷ tn Now the perfect tense with vav consecutive is subordinated to the next clause, “Moses returned the veil….”

[34:35]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “with him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.