Exodus 14:20

14:20 It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud ¹  and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other ²  the whole night. ³ 

Exodus 18:7

18:7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; ⁴  they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent.

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 25:20

25:20 The cherubim are to be spreading their wings upward, overshadowing ⁵  the atonement lid with their wings, and the cherubim are to face each other, ⁶  looking ⁷  toward the atonement lid.

Exodus 25:32

25:32 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, ⁸  three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. ⁹ 

Exodus 28:25-26

28:25 the other ¹⁰  two ends of the two chains you will attach to the two settings and then attach them ¹¹  to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. 28:26 You are to make two rings of gold and put them on the other ¹²  two ends of the breastpiece, on its edge that is on the inner side of the ephod.

Exodus 37:18

37:18 Six branches were extending from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side of it, and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it.

Exodus 38:15

38:15 and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, ¹³  the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

Exodus 39:18-19

39:18 the other ¹⁴  two ends of the two chains they attached to the two settings, and they attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. 39:19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the other ¹⁵  two ends of the breastpiece on its edge, which is on the inner side of the ephod. ¹⁶ 

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¹ tn The two nouns “cloud” and “darkness” form a nominal hendiadys: “and it was the cloud and the darkness” means “and it was the dark cloud.” Perhaps this is what the Egyptians saw, preventing them from observing Moses and the Israelites.

² tn Heb “this to this”; for the use of the pronouns in this reciprocal sense of “the one to the other,” see GKC 448 §139.e, n. 3.

³ tc The LXX reads very differently at the end of this verse: “and there was darkness and blackness and the night passed.” B. S. Childs (Exodus [OTL], 218) summarizes three proposals: (1) One takes the MT as it stands and explains it along the lines of the Targum and Jewish exegesis, that there was one cloud that was dark to one group and light to the other. (2) Another tries to reconstruct a verb from the noun “darkness” or make some use of the Greek verb. (3) A third seeks a different meaning for the verb “lit,” “gave light” by comparative philology, but no consensus has been reached. Given that there is no easy solution apart from reconstructing the text, and given that the MT can be interpreted as it is, the present translation follows the MT.

⁴ sn This is more than polite oriental custom. Jethro was Moses’ benefactor, father-in-law, and a priest. He paid much respect to him. Now he could invite Jethro into his home (see B. Jacob, Exodus, 496).

⁵ 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.

⁶ tn Heb “their faces a man to his brother.”

⁷ tn Heb “the faces of the cherubim will be” (“the cherubim” was moved to the preceding clause for smoother English).

⁸ tn Heb “from the sides of it.”

⁹ tn Heb “from the second side.”

¹⁰ tn Here “the other” has been supplied.

¹¹ tn Here “them” has been supplied.

¹² tn Here “other” has been supplied.

¹³ tn Heb “from this and from this” (cf, 17:12; 25:19; 26:13; 32:15; Josh 8:22, 33; 1 Kgs 10:19-20; Ezek 45:7).

¹⁴ tn Here “other” has been supplied.

¹⁵ tn Here “other” has been supplied.

¹⁶ tn Heb “homeward side.”