Keluaran 21:35

21:35 If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, ¹  and they will also divide the dead ox. ² 

Keluaran 25:20

25:20 The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing ³  the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, ⁴  looking ⁵  toward the atonement lid.

Keluaran 26:7

26:7 “You are to make curtains of goats’ hair ⁶  for a tent over the tabernacle; ⁷  you are to make ⁸  eleven curtains.

Keluaran 27:1

The Altar

27:1 “You are to make the ⁹  altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, ¹⁰  and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, ¹¹  and its height is to be ¹²  four feet six inches.

Keluaran 30:2

30:2 Its length is to be a foot and a half ¹³  and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, ¹⁴  with its horns of one piece with it. ¹⁵ 

Keluaran 30:34

30:34 The Lord said to Moses: “Take ¹⁶  spices, gum resin, ¹⁷  onycha, ¹⁸  galbanum, ¹⁹  and pure frankincense ²⁰  of equal amounts ²¹ 

Keluaran 35:21

35:21 Everyone ²²  whose heart stirred him to action ²³  and everyone whose spirit was willing ²⁴  came and brought the offering for the Lord for the work of the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments. ²⁵ 

Keluaran 36:11

36:11 He made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in the first set; he did the same along the edge of the end curtain in the second set.

Keluaran 36:14

36:14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains. ²⁶ 

Keluaran 37:25

The Making of the Altar of Incense

37:25 He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half – a square – and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it. ²⁷ 

Keluaran 38:1

The Making of the Altar for the Burnt Offering

38:1 He made the altar for the burnt offering of acacia wood seven feet six inches long and seven feet six inches wide – it was square – and its height was four feet six inches.

[21:35]  ¹ tn Literally “its silver” or “silver for it.”

[21:35]  ² tn Heb “divide the dead.” The noun “ox” has been supplied.

[25:20]  ³ tn The verb means “overshadowing, screening” in the sense of guarding (see 1 Kgs 8:7; 1 Chr 28:18; see also the account in Gen 3:24). The cherubim then signify two things here: by their outstretched wings they form the throne of God who sits above the ark (with the Law under his feet), and by their overshadowing and guarding they signify this as the place of atonement where people must find propitiation to commune with God. Until then they are barred from his presence. See U. Cassuto, Exodus, 330-35.

[25:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “their faces a man to his brother.”

[25:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “the faces of the cherubim will be” (“the cherubim” was moved to the preceding clause for smoother English).

[26:7]  ⁶ sn This chapter will show that there were two sets of curtains and two sets of coverings that went over the wood building to make the tabernacle or dwelling place. The curtains of fine linen described above could be seen only by the priests from inside. Above that was the curtain of goats’ hair. Then over that were the coverings, an inner covering of rams’ skins dyed red and an outer covering of hides of fine leather. The movement is from the inside to the outside because it is God’s dwelling place; the approach of the worshiper would be the opposite. The pure linen represented the righteousness of God, guarded by the embroidered cherubim; the curtain of goats’ hair was a reminder of sin through the daily sin offering of a goat; the covering of rams’ skins dyed red was a reminder of the sacrifice and the priestly ministry set apart by blood, and the outer covering marked the separation between God and the world. These are the interpretations set forth by Kaiser; others vary, but not greatly (see W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:459).

[26:7]  ⁷ sn This curtain will serve “for a tent over the tabernacle,” as a dwelling place.

[26:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “you will make them”

[27:1]  ⁹ tn The article on this word identifies this as the altar, meaning the main high altar on which the sacrifices would be made.

[27:1]  ¹⁰ tn The dimensions are five cubits by five cubits by three cubits high.

[27:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “four”; this refers to four sides. S. R. Driver says this is an archaism that means there were four equal sides (Exodus, 291).

[27:1]  ¹² tn Heb “and three cubits its height.”

[30:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “a cubit.”

[30:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “two cubits.”

[30:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “its horns from it.”

[30:34]  ¹⁶ tn The construction is “take to you,” which could be left in that literal sense, but more likely the suffix is an ethical dative, stressing the subject of the imperative.

[30:34]  ¹⁷ sn This is from a word that means “to drip”; the spice is a balsam that drips from a resinous tree.

[30:34]  ¹⁸ sn This may be a plant, or it may be from a species of mollusks; it is mentioned in Ugaritic and Akkadian; it gives a pungent odor when burnt.

[30:34]  ¹⁹ sn This is a gum from plants of the genus Ferula; it has an unpleasant odor, but when mixed with others is pleasant.

[30:34]  ²⁰ tn The word “spice is repeated here, suggesting that the first three formed half of the ingredient and this spice the other half – but this is conjecture (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 400).

[30:34]  ²¹ tn Heb “of each part there will be an equal part.”

[35:21]  ²² tn Heb “man.”

[35:21]  ²³ tn The verb means “lift up, bear, carry.” Here the subject is “heart” or will, and so the expression describes one moved within to act.

[35:21]  ²⁴ tn Heb “his spirit made him willing.” The verb is used in Scripture for the freewill offering that people brought (Lev 7).

[35:21]  ²⁵ tn Literally “the garments of holiness,” the genitive is the attributive genitive, marking out what type of garments these were.

[36:14]  ²⁶ tn Heb “eleven curtains he made them.”

[37:25]  ²⁷ tn Heb “from it were its horns,” meaning that they were made from the same piece.