Exodus 35:5

35:5 ‘Take ¹  an offering for the Lord. Let everyone who has a willing heart ²  bring ³  an offering to the Lord: ⁴  gold, silver, bronze,

Exodus 35:21

35:21 Everyone ⁵  whose heart stirred him to action ⁶  and everyone whose spirit was willing ⁷  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. ⁸ 

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¹ tn Heb “from with you.”

² tn “Heart” is a genitive of specification, clarifying in what way they might be “willing.” The heart refers to their will, their choices.

³ tn The verb has a suffix that is the direct object, but the suffixed object is qualified by the second accusative: “let him bring it, an offering.”

⁴ tn The phrase is literally “the offering of Yahweh”; it could be a simple possessive, “Yahweh’s offering,” but a genitive that indicates the indirect object is more appropriate.

⁵ tn Heb “man.”

⁶ 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.

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

⁸ tn Literally “the garments of holiness,” the genitive is the attributive genitive, marking out what type of garments these were.