Exodus 3:1

3:1 Now Moses ¹  was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert ²  and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. ³ 

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 28:26

28:26 You are to make two rings of gold and put them on the other ⁷  two ends of the breastpiece, on its edge that is on the inner side of the ephod.

Exodus 38:11-12

38:11 For the north side the hangings were ⁸  one hundred fifty feet, with their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver. 38:12 For the west side there were ⁹  hangings seventy-five feet long, with ¹⁰  their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

Exodus 38:15

38:15 and for the second side of the gate of the courtyard, just like the other, ¹¹  the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

Exodus 39:19

39:19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the other ¹²  two ends of the breastpiece on its edge, which is on the inner side of the ephod. ¹³ 

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¹ sn The vav (ו) disjunctive with the name “Moses” introduces a new and important starting point. The Lord’s dealing with Moses will fill the next two chapters.

² tn Or “west of the desert,” taking אַחַר (’akhar, “behind”) as the opposite of עַל־פְּנֵי (’al-pÿne, “on the face of, east of”; cf. Gen 16:12; 25:18).

³ sn “Horeb” is another name for Mount Sinai. There is a good deal of foreshadowing in this verse, for later Moses would shepherd the people of Israel and lead them to Mount Sinai to receive the Law. See D. Skinner, “Some Major Themes of Exodus,” Mid-America Theological Journal 1 (1977): 31-42.

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 Here “other” has been supplied.

⁸ tn Here the phrase “the hangings were” has been supplied.

⁹ tn The phrase “there were” has been supplied.

¹⁰ tn The text simply has “their posts ten and their bases ten”; this may be added here as a circumstantial clause with the main sentence in order to make sense out of the construction.

¹¹ 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).

¹² tn Here “other” has been supplied.

¹³ tn Heb “homeward side.”