Exodus 20:11
20:11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
Exodus 23:12
23:12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and any hired help 1 may refresh themselves. 2
Exodus 25:33
25:33 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on the next 3 branch, and the same 4 for the six branches extending from the lampstand.
Exodus 37:19
37:19 Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on the first branch, and three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on the next 5 branch, and the same 6 for the six branches that were extending from the lampstand.
1 tn Heb “alien,” or “resident foreigner.” Such an individual would have traveled out of need and depended on the goodwill of the people around him. The rendering “hired help” assumes that the foreigner is mentioned in this context because he is working for an Israelite and will benefit from the Sabbath rest, along with his employer.
2 tn The verb is וְיִּנָּפֵשׁ (vÿyyinnafesh); it is related to the word usually translated “soul” or “life.”
3 tn The text uses “one” again; “the one…the one” means “the one…and the next” in the distributive sense.
4 tn Heb “thus.”
5 tn Heb “the one branch.” But the repetition of “one…one” means here one after another, or the “first” and then the “next.”
6 tn Heb “thus for six branches….”