Exodus 12:9

12:9 Do not eat it raw ¹  or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.

Exodus 25:12

25:12 You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

Exodus 25:29

25:29 You are to make its plates, ²  its ladles, ³  its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; ⁴  you are to make them of pure gold.

Exodus 37:3

37:3 He cast four gold rings for it that he put ⁵  on its four feet, with ⁶  two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

Exodus 37:27

37:27 He also made ⁷  two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, ⁸  as places ⁹  for poles to carry it with.

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¹ sn This ruling was to prevent their eating it just softened by the fire or partially roasted as differing customs might prescribe or allow.

² tn Or “a deep gold dish.” The four nouns in this list are items associated with the table and its use.

³ tn Or “cups” (NAB, TEV).

⁴ tn The expression “for pouring out offerings” represents Hebrew אֲשֶׁר יֻסַּךְ בָּהֵן (’asher yussakh bahen). This literally says, “which it may be poured out with them,” or “with which [libations] may be poured out.”

⁵ tn “that he put” has been supplied.

⁶ tn This is taken as a circumstantial clause; the clause begins with the conjunction vav.

⁷ tn Heb “and he made.”

⁸ sn Since it was a small altar, it needed only two rings, one on either side, in order to be carried. The second mention of their location clarifies that they should be on the sides, the right and the left, as one approached the altar.

⁹ tn Heb “for houses.”