Exodus 16:31

16:31 The house of Israel ¹  called its name “manna.” ²  It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted ³  like wafers with honey.

Exodus 27:11

27:11 Likewise ⁴  for its length on the north side, there are to be ⁵  hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands ⁶  on the posts.

Exodus 29:37

29:37 For seven days ⁷  you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. ⁸  Anything that touches the altar will be holy. ⁹ 

Exodus 30:8

30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations.

Exodus 39:20

39:20 They made two more ¹⁰  gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod.

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¹ sn The name “house of Israel” is unusual in this context.

² tn Hebrew מָן (man).

³ tn Heb “like seed of coriander, white, its taste was.”

⁴ tn Heb “and thus.”

⁵ tn Here the phrase “there will be” has been supplied.

⁶ sn These bands have been thought by some to refer to connecting rods joining the tops of the posts. But it is more likely that they are bands or bind rings surrounding the posts at the base of the capitals (see 38:17).

⁷ tn Once again this is an adverbial accusative of time. Each day for seven days the ritual at the altar is to be followed.

⁸ tn The construction is the superlative genitive: “holy of holies,” or “most holy.”

⁹ sn This line states an unusual principle, meant to preserve the sanctity of the altar. S. R. Driver explains it this way (Exodus, 325): If anything comes in contact with the altar, it becomes holy and must remain in the sanctuary for Yahweh’s use. If a person touches the altar, he likewise becomes holy and cannot return to the profane regions. He will be given over to God to be dealt with as God pleases. Anyone who was not qualified to touch the altar did not dare approach it, for contact would have meant that he was no longer free to leave but was God’s holy possession – and might pay for it with his life (see Exod 30:29; Lev 6:18b, 27; and Ezek 46:20).

¹⁰ tn Here “more” has been supplied.