Exodus 9:14

9:14 For this time I will send all my plagues ¹  on your very self ²  and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Exodus 12:4

12:4 If any household is too small ³  for a lamb, ⁴  the man ⁵  and his next-door neighbor ⁶  are to take ⁷  a lamb according to the number of people – you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat. ⁸ 

Exodus 16:18

16:18 When ⁹  they measured with an omer, the one who gathered much had nothing left over, and the one who gathered little lacked nothing; each one had gathered what he could eat.

Exodus 22:6

22:6 “If a fire breaks out and spreads ¹⁰  to thorn bushes, ¹¹  so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started ¹²  the fire must surely make restitution.

Exodus 26:4

26:4 You are to make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and in the same way you are to make loops ¹³  in the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set.

Exodus 27:11

27:11 Likewise ¹⁴  for its length on the north side, there are to be ¹⁵  hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands ¹⁶  on the posts.

Exodus 27:18

27:18 The length of the courtyard is to be one hundred fifty feet ¹⁷  and the width seventy-five feet, ¹⁸  and the height of the fine twisted linen hangings ¹⁹  is to be ²⁰  seven and a half feet, with their bronze bases.

Exodus 29:33

29:33 They are to eat those things by which atonement was made ²¹  to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else ²²  may eat them, for they are holy.

Exodus 30:13

30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered ²³  is to pay this: a half shekel ²⁴  according to the shekel of the sanctuary ²⁵  (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering ²⁶  to the Lord.

Exodus 33:18

33:18 And Moses ²⁷  said, “Show me your glory.” ²⁸ 

Exodus 38:26

38:26 one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, ²⁹  according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, ³⁰  603,550 in all. ³¹ 

[9:14]  ¹ tn The expression “all my plagues” points to the rest of the plagues and anticipates the proper outcome. Another view is to take the expression to mean the full brunt of the attack on the Egyptian people.

[9:14]  ² tn Heb “to your heart.” The expression is unusual, but it may be an allusion to the hard heartedness of Pharaoh – his stubbornness and blindness (B. Jacob, Exodus, 274).

[12:4]  ³ sn Later Judaism ruled that “too small” meant fewer than ten (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 88).

[12:4]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “he and his neighbor”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “who is near to his house.”

[12:4]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Heb “[every] man according to his eating.”

[16:18]  ⁵ tn The preterite with the vav (ו) consecutive is subordinated here as a temporal clause.

[22:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “if a fire goes out and finds”; NLT “if a fire gets out of control.”

[22:6]  ⁸ sn Thorn bushes were used for hedges between fields, but thorn bushes also burned easily, making the fire spread rapidly.

[22:6]  ⁹ tn This is a Hiphil participle of the verb “to burn, kindle” used substantivally. This is the one who caused the fire, whether by accident or not.

[26:4]  ⁹ tn Here “loops” has been supplied.

[27:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and thus.”

[27:11]  ¹² tn Here the phrase “there will be” has been supplied.

[27:11]  ¹³ sn These bands have been thought by some to refer to connecting rods joining the tops of the posts. But it is more likely that they are bands or bind rings surrounding the posts at the base of the capitals (see 38:17).

[27:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “a hundred cubits.”

[27:18]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ tn Here “hangings” has been supplied.

[27:18]  ¹⁶ tn Here the phrase “is to be” has been supplied.

[29:33]  ¹⁵ tn The clause is a relative clause modifying “those things,” the direct object of the verb “eat.” The relative clause has a resumptive pronoun: “which atonement was made by them” becomes “by which atonement was made.” The verb is a Pual perfect of כִּפֵּר (kipper, “to expiate, atone, pacify”).

[29:33]  ¹⁶ tn The Hebrew word is “stranger, alien” (זָר, zar). But in this context it means anyone who is not a priest (see S. R. Driver, Exodus, 324).

[30:13]  ¹⁷ sn Each man was to pass in front of the counting officer and join those already counted on the other side.

[30:13]  ¹⁸ sn The half shekel weight of silver would be about one-fifth of an ounce (6 grams).

[30:13]  ¹⁹ sn It appears that some standard is in view for the amount of a shekel weight. The sanctuary shekel is sometimes considered to be twice the value of the ordinary shekel. The “gerah,” also of uncertain meaning, was mentioned as a reference point for the ancient reader to understand the value of the required payment. It may also be that the expression meant “a sacred shekel” and looked at the purpose more – a shekel for sanctuary dues. This would mean that the standard of the shekel weight was set because it was the traditional amount of sacred dues (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 333). “Though there is no certainty, the shekel is said to weigh about 11,5 grams…Whether an official standard is meant [by ‘sanctuary shekel’] or whether the sanctuary shekel had a different weight than the ‘ordinary’ shekel is not known” (C. Houtman, Exodus, 3:181).

[30:13]  ²⁰ tn Or “contribution” (תְּרוּמָה, tÿrumah).

[33:18]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and he said”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:18]  ²⁰ sn Moses now wanted to see the glory of Yahweh, more than what he had already seen and experienced. He wanted to see God in all his majesty. The LXX chose to translate this without a word for “glory” or “honor”; instead they used the pronoun seautou, “yourself” – show me the real You. God tells him that he cannot see it fully, but in part. It will be enough for Moses to disclose to him the reality of the divine presence as well as God’s moral nature. It would be impossible for Moses to comprehend all of the nature of God, for there is a boundary between God and man. But God would let him see his goodness, the sum of his nature, pass by in a flash. B. Jacob (Exodus, 972) says that the glory refers to God’s majesty, might, and glory, as manifested in nature, in his providence, his laws, and his judgments. He adds that this glory should and would be made visible to man – that was its purpose in the world.

[38:26]  ²¹ sn The weight would be about half an ounce.

[38:26]  ²² tn Heb “upward.”

[38:26]  ²³ tn The phrase “in all” has been supplied.