16:19 Moses said to them, “No one 1 is to keep any of it 2 until morning.”
33:4 When the people heard this troubling word 3 they mourned; 4 no one put on his ornaments.
36:31 He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle
1 tn The address now is for “man” (אִישׁ, ’ish), “each one”; here the instruction seems to be focused on the individual heads of the households.
2 tn Or “some of it,” “from it.”
3 tn Or “bad news” (NAB, NCV).
4 sn The people would rather have risked divine discipline than to go without Yahweh in their midst. So they mourned, and they took off the ornaments. Such had been used in making the golden calf, and so because of their association with all of that they were to be removed as a sign of remorse.
5 tn In view of the use of the verb “can, be able to” in the first clause, this imperfect tense is given a potential nuance.
6 tn Gesenius notes that sometimes a negative statement takes the place of a conditional clause; here it is equal to “if a man sees me he does not live” (GKC 498 §159.gg). The other passages that teach this are Gen 32:30; Deut 4:33, 5:24, 26; Judg 6:22, 13:22, and Isa 6:5.