Exodus 4:4

4:4 But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and grab it by the tail” – so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand ¹  –

Exodus 12:4

12:4 If any household is too small ²  for a lamb, ³  the man ⁴  and his next-door neighbor ⁵  are to take ⁶  a lamb according to the number of people – you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat. ⁷ 

Exodus 22:11

22:11 then there will be an oath to the Lord ⁸  between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.

Exodus 27:18

27:18 The length of the courtyard is to be one hundred fifty feet ⁹  and the width seventy-five feet, ¹⁰  and the height of the fine twisted linen hangings ¹¹  is to be ¹²  seven and a half feet, with their bronze bases.

Exodus 39:5

39:5 The artistically woven waistband of the ephod that was on it was like it, of one piece with it, ¹³  of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

[4:4]  ¹ sn The signs authenticated Moses’ ministry as the Lord’s emissary. This sign will show that the Lord had control over Egypt and its stability, over life and death. But first Moses has to be convinced that he can turn it into a dead stick again.

[12:4]  ² sn Later Judaism ruled that “too small” meant fewer than ten (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 88).

[12:4]  ³ tn The clause uses the comparative min (מִן) construction: יִמְעַט הַבַּיִת מִהְיֹת מִשֶּׂה (yim’at habbayit mihyot miseh, “the house is small from being from a lamb,” or “too small for a lamb”). It clearly means that if there were not enough people in the household to have a lamb by themselves, they should join with another family. For the use of the comparative, see GKC 430 §133.c.

[12:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “he and his neighbor”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “who is near to his house.”

[12:4]  ⁶ tn The construction uses a perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive after a conditional clause: “if the household is too small…then he and his neighbor will take.”

[12:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “[every] man according to his eating.”

[22:11]  ³ tn The construct relationship שְׁבֻעַת יְהוָה (shÿvu’at yÿhvah, “the oath of Yahweh”) would require a genitive of indirect object, “an oath [to] Yahweh.” U. Cassuto suggests that it means “an oath by Yahweh” (Exodus, 287). The person to whom the animal was entrusted would take a solemn oath to Yahweh that he did not appropriate the animal for himself, and then his word would be accepted.

[27:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “a hundred cubits.”

[27:18]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Here “hangings” has been supplied.

[27:18]  ⁷ tn Here the phrase “is to be” has been supplied.

[39:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “from it” or the same.