Exodus 27:19

27:19 All ¹  the utensils of the tabernacle used ²  in all its service, all its tent pegs, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze. ³ 

Exodus 30:16

30:16 You are to receive the atonement money ⁴  from the Israelites and give it for the service ⁵  of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial ⁶  for the Israelites before the Lord, to make atonement ⁷  for your lives.”

Exodus 35:21

35:21 Everyone ⁸  whose heart stirred him to action ⁹  and everyone whose spirit was willing ¹⁰  came and brought the offering for the Lord for the work of the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments. ¹¹ 

Exodus 35:24

35:24 Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as ¹²  an offering to the Lord, and everyone who had acacia wood ¹³  for any work of the service brought it. ¹⁴ 

Exodus 36:3

36:3 and they received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to do ¹⁵  the work for the service of the sanctuary, and they still continued to bring him a freewill offering each morning. ¹⁶ 

Exodus 39:40

39:40 the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and its bases, and the curtain for the gateway of the courtyard, its ropes and its tent pegs, and all the furnishings ¹⁷  for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

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¹ tn Heb “to all”; for use of the preposition lamed (ל) to show inclusion (all belonging to) see GKC 458 §143.e.

² tn Here “used” has been supplied.

³ sn The tabernacle is an important aspect of OT theology. The writer’s pattern so far has been: ark, table, lamp, and then their container (the tabernacle); then the altar and its container (the courtyard). The courtyard is the place of worship where the people could gather – they entered God’s courts. Though the courtyard may not seem of much interest to current readers, it did interest the Israelites. Here the sacrifices were made, the choirs sang, the believers offered their praises, they had their sins forgiven, they came to pray, they appeared on the holy days, and they heard from God. It was sacred because God met them there; they left the “world” (figuratively speaking) and came into the very presence of God.

⁴ tn Heb “the silver of the atonements.” The genitive here is the result (as in “sheep of slaughter”) telling what the money will be used for (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 11, §44).

⁵ sn The idea of “service” is maintenance and care of the sanctuary and its service, meaning the morning and evening sacrifices and the other elements to be used.

⁶ sn S. R. Driver says this is “to keep Jehovah in continual remembrance of the ransom which had been paid for their lives” (Exodus, 334).

⁷ tn The infinitive could be taken in a couple of ways here. It could be an epexegetical infinitive: “making atonement.” Or it could be the infinitive expressing result: “so that atonement will be made for your lives.”

⁸ tn Heb “man.”

⁹ tn The verb means “lift up, bear, carry.” Here the subject is “heart” or will, and so the expression describes one moved within to act.

¹⁰ tn Heb “his spirit made him willing.” The verb is used in Scripture for the freewill offering that people brought (Lev 7).

¹¹ tn Literally “the garments of holiness,” the genitive is the attributive genitive, marking out what type of garments these were.

¹² tn This translation takes “offering” as an adverbial accusative explaining the form or purpose of their bringing things. It could also be rendered as the direct object, but that would seem to repeat without much difference what had just been said.

¹³ sn U. Cassuto notes that the expression “with whom was found” does not rule out the idea that these folks went out and cut down acacia trees (Exodus, 458). It is unlikely that they had much wood in their tents.

¹⁴ tn Here “it” has been supplied.

¹⁵ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive “to do it” comes after “sanctuary”; it makes a smoother rendering in English to move it forward, rather than reading “brought for the work.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “in the morning, in the morning.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “utensils, vessels.”