Exodus 27:18

27:18 The length of the courtyard is to be one hundred fifty feet ¹  and the width seventy-five feet, ²  and the height of the fine twisted linen hangings ³  is to be ⁴  seven and a half feet, with their bronze bases.

Exodus 30:15

30:15 The rich are not to increase it, ⁵  and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving ⁶  the offering of the Lord, to make atonement ⁷  for your lives.

Exodus 38:15

38:15 and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, ⁸  the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

Exodus 38:26

38:26 one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, ⁹  according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, ¹⁰  603,550 in all. ¹¹ 

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¹ tn Heb “a hundred cubits.”

² tn Heb “fifty.” The text has “and the width fifty [cubits] with fifty.” This means that it is fifty cubits wide on the western end and fifty cubits wide on the eastern end.

³ tn Here “hangings” has been supplied.

⁴ tn Here the phrase “is to be” has been supplied.

⁵ tn Or “pay more.”

⁶ tn The form is לָתֵת (latet), the Qal infinitive construct with the lamed preposition. The infinitive here is explaining the preceding verbs. They are not to increase or diminish the amount “in paying the offering.” The construction approximates a temporal clause.

⁷ tn This infinitive construct (לְכַפֵּר, lÿkhapper) provides the purpose of the giving the offering – to atone.

⁸ 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).

⁹ sn The weight would be about half an ounce.

¹⁰ tn Heb “upward.”

¹¹ tn The phrase “in all” has been supplied.