Exodus 4:24

4:24 Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, ¹  the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him. ² 

Exodus 13:6

13:6 For seven days ³  you must eat ⁴  bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be ⁵  a festival to the Lord.

Exodus 21:30

21:30 If a ransom is set for him, ⁶  then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

Exodus 26:30

26:30 You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan ⁷  that you were shown on the mountain.

Exodus 26:34

26:34 You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.

Exodus 27:8

27:8 You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you ⁸  on the mountain, so they must make it. ⁹ 

Exodus 29:15

29:15 “You are to take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head,

Exodus 29:19

29:19 “You are to take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head,

Exodus 33:21

33:21 The Lord said, “Here ¹⁰  is a place by me; you will station yourself ¹¹  on a rock.

Exodus 40:22-23

40:22 And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain. 40:23 And he set the bread in order on it ¹²  before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

[4:24]  ¹ tn Or “at a lodging place” or “at an inn.”

[4:24]  ² sn The next section (vv. 24-26) records a rather strange story. God had said that if Pharaoh would not comply he would kill his son – but now God was ready to kill Moses, the representative of Israel, God’s own son. Apparently, one would reconstruct that on the journey Moses fell seriously ill, but his wife, learning the cause of the illness, saved his life by circumcising her son and casting the foreskin at Moses’ feet (indicating that it was symbolically Moses’ foreskin). The point is that this son of Abraham had not complied with the sign of the Abrahamic covenant. No one, according to Exod 12:40-51, would take part in the Passover-exodus who had not complied. So how could the one who was going to lead God’s people not comply? The bold anthropomorphisms and the location at the border invite comparisons with Gen 32, the Angel wrestling with Jacob. In both cases there is a brush with death that could not be forgotten. See also, W. Dumbrell, “Exodus 4:24-25: A Textual Re-examination,” HTR 65 (1972): 285-90; T. C. Butler, “An Anti-Moses Tradition,” JSOT 12 (1979): 9-15; and L. Kaplan, “And the Lord Sought to Kill Him,” HAR 5 (1981): 65-74.

[13:6]  ³ tn Heb “Seven days.”

[13:6]  ⁴ tn The imperfect tense functions with the nuance of instruction or injunction. It could also be given an obligatory nuance: “you must eat” or “you are to eat.” Some versions have simply made it an imperative.

[13:6]  ⁵ tn The phrase “there is to be” has been supplied.

[21:30]  ⁵ sn The family of the victim would set the amount for the ransom of the man guilty of criminal neglect. This practice was common in the ancient world, rare in Israel. If the family allowed the substitute price, then the man would be able to redeem his life.

[26:30]  ⁷ tn The noun is מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat), often translated “judgment” or “decision” in other contexts. In those settings it may reflect its basic idea of custom, which here would be reflected with a rendering of “prescribed norm” or “plan.”

[27:8]  ⁹ tn The verb is used impersonally; it reads “just as he showed you.” This form then can be made a passive in the translation.

[27:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “thus they will make.” Here too it could be given a passive translation since the subject is not expressed. But “they” would normally refer to the people who will be making this and so can be retained in the translation.

[33:21]  ¹¹ tn The deictic particle is used here simply to call attention to a place of God’s knowing and choosing.

[33:21]  ¹² tn Heb “and you will,” or interpretively, “where you will.”

[40:23]  ¹³ tn Heb uses a cognate accusative construction, “he arranged the arrangement.”