Exodus 6:20

6:20 Amram married ¹  his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. (The length of Amram’s life was 137 years.)

Exodus 6:23

6:23 Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Exodus 13:19

13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph ²  had made the Israelites solemnly swear, ³  “God will surely attend ⁴  to you, and you will carry ⁵  my bones up from this place with you.”

Exodus 18:12

18:12 Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought ⁶  a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, ⁷  and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food ⁸  with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

Exodus 24:8

24:8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on ⁹  the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant ¹⁰  that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Exodus 32:20

32:20 He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it ¹¹  to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it. ¹² 

Exodus 34:4

34:4 So Moses ¹³  cut out two tablets of stone like the first; ¹⁴  early in the morning he went up ¹⁵  to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

[6:20]  ¹ tn Heb “took for a wife” (also in vv. 23, 25).

[13:19]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:19]  ³ tn Heb “solemnly swear, saying” (so NASB). The construction uses the Hiphil infinitive absolute with the Hiphil perfect to stress that Joseph had made them take a solemn oath to carry his bones out of Egypt. “Saying” introduces the content of what Joseph said.

[13:19]  ⁴ sn This verb appears also in 3:16 and 4:31. The repetition here is a reminder that God was doing what he had said he would do and what Joseph had expected.

[13:19]  ⁵ tn The form is a Hiphil perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; it follows in the sequence of the imperfect tense before it, and so is equal to an imperfect of injunction (because of the solemn oath). Israel took Joseph’s bones with them as a sign of piety toward the past and as a symbol of their previous bond with Canaan (B. Jacob, Exodus, 380).

[18:12]  ³ tn The verb is “and he took” (cf. KJV, ASV, NASB). It must have the sense of getting the animals for the sacrifice. The Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate have “offered.” But Cody argues because of the precise wording in the text Jethro did not offer the sacrifices but received them (A. Cody, “Exodus 18,12: Jethro Accepts a Covenant with the Israelites,” Bib 49 [1968]: 159-61).

[18:12]  ⁴ sn Jethro brought offerings as if he were the one who had been delivered. The “burnt offering” is singular, to honor God first. The other sacrifices were intended for the invited guests to eat (a forerunner of the peace offering). See B. Jacob, Exodus, 498.

[18:12]  ⁵ tn The word לֶחֶם (lekhem) here means the sacrifice and all the foods that were offered with it. The eating before God was part of covenantal ritual, for it signified that they were in communion with the Deity, and with one another.

[24:8]  ⁴ tn Given the size of the congregation, the preposition might be rendered here “toward the people” rather than on them (all).

[24:8]  ⁵ sn The construct relationship “the blood of the covenant” means “the blood by which the covenant is ratified” (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 254). The parallel with the inauguration of the new covenant in the blood of Christ is striking (see, e.g., Matt 26:28, 1 Cor 11:25). When Jesus was inaugurating the new covenant, he was bringing to an end the old.

[32:20]  ⁵ tn Here “it” has been supplied.

[32:20]  ⁶ tn Here “it” has been supplied.

[34:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified here and the name “Moses,” which occurs later in this verse, has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”), both for stylistic reasons.

[34:4]  ⁷ sn Deuteronomy says that Moses was also to make an ark of acacia wood before the tablets, apparently to put the tablets in until the sanctuary was built. But this ark may not have been the ark built later; or, it might be the wood box, but Bezalel still had to do all the golden work with it.

[34:4]  ⁸ tn The line reads “and Moses got up early in the morning and went up.” These verbs likely form a verbal hendiadys, the first one with its prepositional phrase serving in an adverbial sense.