Exodus 22:9

22:9 In all cases of illegal possessions, ¹  whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says ‘This belongs to me,’ ²  the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, ³  and the one whom ⁴  the judges declare guilty ⁵  must repay double to his neighbor.

Exodus 32:13

32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants ⁶  like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about ⁷  I will give to your descendants, ⁸  and they will inherit it forever.’”

Exodus 33:1

33:1 The Lord said to Moses, “Go up ⁹  from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath ¹⁰  to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ ¹¹ 

Exodus 33:12

33:12 Moses said to the Lord, “See, you have been saying to me, ‘Bring this people up,’ ¹²  but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said, ‘I know you by name, ¹³  and also you have found favor in my sight.’

Exodus 34:10

34:10 He said, “See, I am going to make ¹⁴  a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done ¹⁵  in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you. ¹⁶ 

Exodus 36:1

36:1 So Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person ¹⁷  in whom the Lord has put skill ¹⁸  and ability ¹⁹  to know how ²⁰  to do all the work for the service ²¹  of the sanctuary are to do the work ²²  according to all that the Lord has commanded.”

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¹ tn Heb “concerning every kind [thing] of trespass.”

² tn The text simply has “this is it” (הוּא זֶה, hu’ zeh).

³ tn Again, or “God.”

⁴ tn This kind of clause Gesenius calls an independent relative clause – it does not depend on a governing substantive but itself expresses a substantival idea (GKC 445-46 §138.e).

⁵ tn The verb means “to be guilty” in Qal; in Hiphil it would have a declarative sense, because a causative sense would not possibly fit.

⁶ tn Heb “your seed.”

⁷ tn “about” has been supplied.

⁸ tn Heb “seed.”

⁹ tn The two imperatives underscore the immediacy of the demand: “go, go up,” meaning “get going up” or “be on your way.”

¹⁰ tn Or “the land which I swore.”

¹¹ tn Heb “seed.”

¹² tn The Hiphil imperative is from the same verb that has been used before for bringing the people up from Egypt and leading them to Canaan.

¹³ tn That is, “chosen you.”

¹⁴ tn Here again is a use of the futur instans participle; the deictic particle plus the pronoun precedes the participle, showing what is about to happen.

¹⁵ tn The verb here is בָּרָא (bara’, “to create”). The choice of this verb is to stress that these wonders would be supernaturally performed, for the verb is used only with God as the subject.

¹⁶ sn The idea is that God will be doing awesome things in dealing with them, i.e., to fulfill his program.

¹⁷ tn Heb “wise of [in] heart.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “wisdom.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “understanding, discernment.”

²⁰ tn The relative clause includes this infinitive clause that expresses either the purpose or the result of God’s giving wisdom and understanding to these folk.

²¹ tn This noun is usually given an interpretive translation. B. Jacob renders the bound relationship as “the holy task” or “the sacred task” (Exodus, 1019). The NIV makes it “constructing,” so read “the work of constructing the sanctuary.”

²² tn The first word of the verse is a perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it is singular because it agrees with the first of the compound subject. The sentence is a little cumbersome because of the extended relative clause in the middle.