Exodus 8:27

8:27 We must go ¹  on a three-day journey ²  into the desert and sacrifice ³  to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us.” ⁴ 

Exodus 16:26

16:26 Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”

Exodus 19:15

19:15 He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.” ⁵ 

Exodus 29:35

29:35 “Thus you are to do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you are to consecrate them ⁶  for ⁷  seven days.

Exodus 34:21

34:21 “On six days ⁸  you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; ⁹  even at the time of plowing and of harvest ¹⁰  you are to rest. ¹¹ 

[8:27]  ¹ tn The verb נֵלֵךְ (nelekh) is a Qal imperfect of the verb הָלַךְ (halakh). Here it should be given the modal nuance of obligation: “we must go.”

[8:27]  ² tn This clause is placed first in the sentence to stress the distance required. דֶּרֶךְ (derekh) is an adverbial accusative specifying how far they must go. It is in construct, so “three days” modifies it. It is a “journey of three days,” or, “a three day journey.”

[8:27]  ³ tn The form is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive; it follows in the sequence: we must go…and then [must] sacrifice.”

[8:27]  ⁴ tn The form is the imperfect tense. It could be future: “as he will tell us,” but it also could be the progressive imperfect if this is now what God is telling them to do: “as he is telling us.”

[19:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “do not go near a woman”; NIV “Abstain from sexual relations.”

[29:35]  ⁹ tn Heb “you will fill their hand.”

[29:35]  ¹⁰ tn The “seven days” is the adverbial accusative explaining that the ritual of the filling should continue daily for a week. Leviticus makes it clear that they are not to leave the sanctuary.

[34:21]  ¹³ tn This is an adverbial accusative of time.

[34:21]  ¹⁴ tn Or “cease” (i.e., from the labors).

[34:21]  ¹⁵ sn See M. Dahood, “Vocative lamed in Exodus 2,4 and Merismus in 34,21,” Bib 62 (1981): 413-15.

[34:21]  ¹⁶ tn The imperfect tense expresses injunction or instruction.