Exodus 4:25

4:25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, 1  and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood 2  to me.”

Exodus 12:11

12:11 This is how you are to eat it – dressed to travel, 3  your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. 4 

Exodus 25:12

25:12 You are to cast four gold rings for it and put them on its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.

Exodus 27:9

The Courtyard

27:9 “You are to make the courtyard 5  of the tabernacle. For the south side 6  there are to be hangings 7  for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long for one side, 8 

Exodus 27:11

27:11 Likewise 9  for its length on the north side, there are to be 10  hangings for one hundred fifty feet, with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with silver hooks and bands 11  on the posts.

Exodus 27:16

27:16 For the gate of the courtyard there is to be a curtain of thirty feet, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, with four posts and their four bases.

Exodus 30:2

30:2 Its length is to be a foot and a half 12  and its width a foot and a half; it will be square. Its height is to be three feet, 13  with its horns of one piece with it. 14 

Exodus 30:21

30:21 they must wash 15  their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this 16  will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants 17  throughout their generations.” 18 

Exodus 37:25

The Making of the Altar of Incense

37:25 He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half – a square – and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it. 19 

Exodus 38:11-12

38:11 For the north side the hangings were 20  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 21  hangings seventy-five feet long, with 22  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, 23  the hangings were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.

1 tn Heb “to his feet.” The referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The LXX has “and she fell at his feet” and then “the blood of the circumcision of my son stood.” But it is clear that she caused the foreskin to touch Moses’ feet, as if the one were a substitution for the other, taking the place of the other (see U. Cassuto, Exodus, 60).

2 sn U. Cassuto explains that she was saying, “I have delivered you from death, and your return to life makes you my bridegroom a second time, this time my blood bridegroom, a bridegroom acquired through blood” (Exodus, 60-61).

3 tn Heb “your loins girded.”

4 tn The meaning of פֶּסַח (pesakh) is debated. (1) Some have tried to connect it to the Hebrew verb with the same radicals that means “to halt, leap, limp, stumble.” See 1 Kgs 18:26 where the word describes the priests of Baal hopping around the altar; also the crippled child in 2 Sam 4:4. (2) Others connect it to the Akkadian passahu, which means “to appease, make soft, placate”; or (3) an Egyptian word to commemorate the harvest (see J. B. Segal, The Hebrew Passover, 95-100). The verb occurs in Isa 31:5 with the connotation of “to protect”; B. S. Childs suggests that this was already influenced by the exodus tradition (Exodus [OTL], 183, n. 11). Whatever links there may or may not have been that show an etymology, in Exod 12 it is describing Yahweh’s passing over or through.

5 tn Or “enclosure” (TEV).

6 tn Heb “south side southward.”

7 tn Or “curtains.”

8 sn The entire courtyard of 150 feet by 75 feet was to be enclosed by a curtain wall held up with posts in bases. All these hangings were kept in place by a cord and tent pegs.

9 tn Heb “and thus.”

10 tn Here the phrase “there will be” has been supplied.

11 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).

12 tn Heb “a cubit.”

13 tn Heb “two cubits.”

14 tn Heb “its horns from it.”

15 tn Heb “and [then] they will wash.”

16 tn The verb is “it will be.”

17 tn Heb “for his seed.”

18 tn Or “for generations to come”; it literally is “to their generations.”

sn The symbolic meaning of washing has been taught throughout the ages. This was a practical matter of cleaning hands and feet, but it was also symbolic of purification before Yahweh. It was an outward sign of inner spiritual cleansing, or forgiveness. Jesus washed the disciples feet (Jn 13) to show this same teaching; he asked the disciples if they knew what he had done (so it was more than washing feet). In this passage the theological points for the outline would be these: I. God provides the means of cleansing; II. Cleansing is a prerequisite for participating in the worship, and III. (Believers) priests must regularly appropriate God’s provision of cleansing.

19 tn Heb “from it were its horns,” meaning that they were made from the same piece.

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

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

22 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.

23 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).