Exodus 40:4

40:4 You are to bring in the table and set out the things that belong on it; ¹  then you are to bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

Exodus 25:14

25:14 and put the poles into the rings at the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them.

Exodus 18:19

18:19 Now listen to me, ²  I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, ³  and you bring ⁴  their disputes ⁵  to God;

Exodus 26:11

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. ⁶ 

Exodus 26:33

26:33 You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain. ⁷  The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. ⁸ 

[40:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and you will set in order its setting” or “arrange its arrangement.” See 25:29-30 for items that belonged on the table.

[18:19]  ² tn Heb “hear my voice.”

[18:19]  ³ tn The line reads “Be you to the people before God.” He is to be their representative before God. This is introducing the aspect of the work that only Moses could do, what he has been doing. He is to be before God for the people, to pray for them, to appeal on their behalf. Jethro is essentially saying, I understand that you cannot delegate this to anyone else, so continue doing it (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 219-20).

[18:19]  ⁴ tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive; following the imperative it will be instruction as well. Since the imperative preceding this had the idea of “continue to be” as you are, this too has that force.

[18:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “words”; KJV, ASV “the causes”; NRSV “cases”; NLT “questions.”

[26:11]  ³ tn Heb “one”

[26:33]  ⁴ tn The traditional expression is “within the veil,” literally “into the house (or area) of the (special) curtain.”

[26:33]  ⁵ tn Or “the Holy of Holies.”