Exodus 35:23-24

35:23 Everyone who had ¹  blue, purple, or ²  scarlet yarn, fine linen, goats’ hair, ram skins dyed red, or fine leather ³  brought them. ⁴  35:24 Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as ⁵  an offering to the Lord, and everyone who had acacia wood ⁶  for any work of the service brought it. ⁷ 

[35:23]  ¹ tn The text uses a relative clause with a resumptive pronoun for this: “who was found with him,” meaning “with whom was found.”

[35:23]  ² tn The conjunction in this verse is translated “or” because the sentence does not intend to say that each person had all these things. They brought what they had.

[35:23]  ³ tn See the note on this phrase in Exod 25:5.

[35:23]  ⁴ tn Here “them” has been supplied.

[35:24]  ⁵ tn This translation takes “offering” as an adverbial accusative explaining the form or purpose of their bringing things. It could also be rendered as the direct object, but that would seem to repeat without much difference what had just been said.

[35:24]  ⁶ sn U. Cassuto notes that the expression “with whom was found” does not rule out the idea that these folks went out and cut down acacia trees (Exodus, 458). It is unlikely that they had much wood in their tents.

[35:24]  ⁷ tn Here “it” has been supplied.