Exodus 38:13

38:13 For the east side, toward the sunrise, it was seventy-five feet wide, ¹ 

Exodus 30:23

30:23 “Take ²  choice spices: ³  twelve and a half pounds ⁴  of free-flowing myrrh, ⁵  half that – about six and a quarter pounds – of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane,

Exodus 27:13

27:13 The width of the court on the east side, toward the sunrise, is to be seventy-five feet.

Exodus 27:12

27:12 The width of the court on the west side is to be seventy-five feet with hangings, with their ten posts and their ten bases.

Exodus 36:18

36:18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit. ⁶ 

Exodus 26:5-6

26:5 You are to make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you are to make fifty loops on the end curtain which is on the second set, so that the loops are opposite one to another. ⁷  26:6 You are to make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle is a unit. ⁸ 

Exodus 26:10-11

26:10 You are to make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain that joins the second set. 26:11 You are to make fifty bronze clasps and put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it is a unit. ⁹ 

Exodus 27:18

27:18 The length of the courtyard is to be one hundred fifty feet ¹⁰  and the width seventy-five feet, ¹¹  and the height of the fine twisted linen hangings ¹²  is to be ¹³  seven and a half feet, with their bronze bases.

Exodus 36:12-13

36:12 He made fifty loops on the first curtain, and he made fifty loops on the end curtain that was in the second set, with the loops opposite one another. 36:13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit. ¹⁴ 

Exodus 36:17

36:17 He made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set and fifty loops along the edge of the curtain that joined the second set.

Exodus 38:12

38:12 For the west side there were ¹⁵  hangings seventy-five feet long, with ¹⁶  their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

Exodus 18:21

18:21 But you choose ¹⁷  from the people capable men, ¹⁸  God-fearing, ¹⁹  men of truth, ²⁰  those who hate bribes, ²¹  and put them over the people ²²  as rulers ²³  of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 18:25

18:25 Moses chose capable men from all Israel, and he made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

[38:13]  ¹ tn The text simply says “seventy-five feet.”

[30:23]  ² tn The construction uses the imperative “take,” but before it is the independent pronoun to add emphasis to it. After the imperative is the ethical dative (lit. “to you”) to stress the task to Moses as a personal responsibility: “and you, take to yourself.”

[30:23]  ³ tn Heb “spices head.” This must mean the chief spices, or perhaps the top spice, meaning fine spices or choice spices. See Song 4:14; Ezek 27:22.

[30:23]  ⁴ tn Or “500 shekels.” Verse 24 specifies that the sanctuary shekel was the unit for weighing the spices. The total of 1500 shekels for the four spices is estimated at between 77 and 100 pounds, or 17 to 22 kilograms, depending on how much a shekel weighed (C. Houtman, Exodus, 3:576).

[30:23]  ⁵ sn Myrrh is an aromatic substance that flows from the bark of certain trees in Arabia and Africa and then hardens. “The hardened globules of the gum appear also to have been ground into a powder that would have been easy to store and would have been poured from a container” (J. Durham, Exodus [WBC], 3:406).

[36:18]  ³ tn The construction uses the infinitive construct from the verb “to be” to express this purpose clause: “to be one,” or, “so that it might be a unit.”

[26:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “a woman to her sister.”

[26:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “one”; KJV “it shall be one tabernacle”; NRSV “that the tabernacle may be one whole”; NLT “a single unit.”

[26:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “one”

[27:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “a hundred cubits.”

[27:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “fifty.” The text has “and the width fifty [cubits] with fifty.” This means that it is fifty cubits wide on the western end and fifty cubits wide on the eastern end.

[27:18]  ⁹ tn Here “hangings” has been supplied.

[27:18]  ¹⁰ tn Here the phrase “is to be” has been supplied.

[36:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “one.”

[38:12]  ⁹ tn The phrase “there were” has been supplied.

[38:12]  ¹⁰ tn The text simply has “their posts ten and their bases ten”; this may be added here as a circumstantial clause with the main sentence in order to make sense out of the construction.

[18:21]  ¹⁰ tn The construction uses the independent pronoun for emphasis, and then the imperfect tense “see” (חָזָה, khazah) – “and you will see from all….” Both in Hebrew and Ugaritic expressions of “seeing” are used in the sense of choosing (Gen 41:33). See U. Cassuto, Exodus, 220.

[18:21]  ¹¹ tn The expression is אַנְשֵׁי־חַיִל (’anshe khayil, “capable men”). The attributive genitive is the word used in expressions like “mighty man of valor.” The word describes these men as respected, influential, powerful people, those looked up to by the community as leaders, and those who will have the needs of the community in mind.

[18:21]  ¹² tn The description “fearers of God” uses an objective genitive. It describes them as devout, worshipful, obedient servants of God.

[18:21]  ¹³ tn The expression “men of truth” (אַנְשֵׁי אֱמֶת, ’anshe ’emet) indicates that these men must be seekers of truth, who know that the task of a judge is to give true judgment (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 220). The word “truth” includes the ideas of faithfulness or reliability, as well as factuality itself. It could be understood to mean “truthful men,” men whose word is reliable and true.

[18:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “haters of bribes.” Here is another objective genitive, one that refers to unjust gain. To hate unjust gain is to reject and refuse it. Their decisions will not be swayed by greed.

[18:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “over them”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:21]  ¹⁶ sn It is not clear how this structure would work in a judicial setting. The language of “captains of thousands,” etc., is used more for military ranks. There must have been more detailed instruction involved here, for each Israelite would have come under four leaders with this arrangement, and perhaps difficult cases would be sent to the next level. But since the task of these men would also involve instruction and guidance, the breakdown would be very useful. Deut 1:9, 13 suggest that the choice of these people was not simply Moses’ alone.