Keluaran 28:5-6

28:5 The artisans ¹  are to use ²  the gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine linen.

28:6 “They are to make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, the work of an artistic designer.

Keluaran 29:14

29:14 But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up ³  outside the camp. ⁴  It is the purification offering. ⁵ 

Keluaran 39:2

The Ephod

39:2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

Keluaran 39:29

39:29 The sash was of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, the work of an embroiderer, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

[28:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and they.” The word “artisans” is supplied as the referent of the pronoun, a connection that is clearer in Hebrew than in English.

[28:5]  ² tn Heb “receive” or “take.”

[29:14]  ³ tn Heb “burn with fire.”

[29:14]  ⁴ sn This is to be done because there is no priesthood yet. Once they are installed, then the sin/purification offering is to be eaten by the officiating priests as a sign that the offering was received. But priests could not consume their own sin offering.

[29:14]  ⁵ sn There were two kinds of “purification offering,” those made with confession for sin and those made without. The title needs to cover both of them, and if it is called in the traditional way “the sin offering,” that will convey that when people offered it for skin diseases, menstruation, or having babies, they had sinned. That was not the case. Moreover, it is usual to translate the names of the sacrifices by what they do more than what they cover – so peace offering, reparation offering, and purification offering.