Exodus 7:22

7:22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same ¹  by their secret arts, and so ²  Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, ³  and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron ⁴  – just as the Lord had predicted.

Exodus 8:18

8:18 When ⁵  the magicians attempted ⁶  to bring forth gnats by their secret arts, they could not. So there were gnats on people and on animals.

Exodus 12:50

12:50 So all the Israelites did exactly as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. ⁷ 

Exodus 14:4

14:4 I will harden ⁸  Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them. I will gain honor ⁹  because of Pharaoh and because of all his army, and the Egyptians will know ¹⁰  that I am the Lord.” So this is what they did. ¹¹ 

Exodus 32:28

32:28 The Levites did what Moses ordered, ¹²  and that day about three thousand men of the people died. ¹³ 

Exodus 32:31

32:31 So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, ¹⁴  and they have made for themselves gods of gold.

Exodus 39:6

39:6 They set the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved as with the engravings of a seal ¹⁵  with the names of the sons of Israel. ¹⁶ 

Exodus 39:16

39:16 and they made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and they attached the two rings to the upper ¹⁷  two ends of the breastpiece.

Exodus 39:19-20

39:19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the other ¹⁸  two ends of the breastpiece on its edge, which is on the inner side of the ephod. ¹⁹  39:20 They made two more ²⁰  gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod.

Exodus 39:25

39:25 They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates.

Exodus 39:30

39:30 They made a plate, the holy diadem, of pure gold and wrote on it an inscription, as on the engravings of a seal, “Holiness to the Lord.”

Exodus 39:32

Moses Inspects the Sanctuary

39:32 ²¹ So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses – they did it exactly so.

[7:22]  ¹ tn Heb “thus, so.”

[7:22]  ² tn The vav consecutive on the preterite introduces the outcome or result of the matter – Pharaoh was hardened.

[7:22]  ³ tn Heb “and the heart of Pharaoh became hard.” This phrase translates the Hebrew word חָזַק (khazaq; see S. R. Driver, Exodus, 53). In context this represents the continuation of a prior condition.

[7:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “to them”; the referents (Moses and Aaron) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:18]  ⁵ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the main clause as a temporal clause.

[8:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the magicians did so.”

[12:50]  ⁹ tn Heb “did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.” The final phrase “so they did,” which is somewhat redundant in English, has been represented in the translation by the adverb “exactly.”

[14:4]  ¹³ tn In this place the verb חָזַק (hazaq) is used; it indicates that God would make Pharaoh’s will strong or firm.

[14:4]  ¹⁴ tn The form is וְאִכָּבְדָה (vÿ’ikkavÿda), the Niphal cohortative; coming after the perfect tenses with vav (ו) consecutives expressing the future, this cohortative indicates the purpose of the hardening and chasing. Yahweh intended to gain glory by this final and great victory over the strength of Pharaoh. There is irony in this expression since a different form of the word was used frequently to describe Pharaoh’s hard heart. So judgment will not only destroy the wicked – it will reveal the glory and majesty of the sovereignty of God.

[14:4]  ¹⁵ tn This is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive. But it announces the fulfillment of an long standing purpose – that they might know.

[14:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and they did so.”

[32:28]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “did according to the word of Moses.”

[32:28]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “fell.”

[32:31]  ²¹ tn As before, the cognate accusative is used; it would literally be “this people has sinned a great sin.”

[39:6]  ²⁵ tn Or “as seals are engraved.”

[39:6]  ²⁶ sn The twelve names were those of Israel’s sons. The idea was not the remembrance of the twelve sons as such, but the twelve tribes that bore their names.

[39:16]  ²⁹ tn Here “upper” has been supplied.

[39:19]  ³³ tn Here “other” has been supplied.

[39:19]  ³⁴ tn Heb “homeward side.”

[39:20]  ³⁷ tn Here “more” has been supplied.

[39:32]  ⁴¹ sn The last sections of the book bring several themes together to a full conclusion. Not only is it the completion of the tabernacle, it is the fulfillment of God’s plan revealed at the beginning of the book, i.e., to reside with his people.