Exodus 5:6

5:6 That same day Pharaoh commanded 1  the slave masters and foremen 2  who were 3  over the people: 4 

Exodus 7:6

7:6 And Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.

Exodus 12:28

12:28 and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. 5 

Exodus 12:50

12:50 So all the Israelites did exactly as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. 6 

Exodus 16:34

16:34 Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony 7  for safekeeping. 8 

Exodus 35:10

35:10 Every skilled person 9  among you is to come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

Exodus 39:42

39:42 The Israelites did all the work according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:16

40:16 This is what Moses did, according to all the Lord had commanded him – so he did.

Exodus 40:25

40:25 Then he set up the lamps before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:27

40:27 and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

1 tn Heb “and Pharaoh commanded on that day.”

2 tn The Greek has “scribes” for this word, perhaps thinking of those lesser officials as keeping records of the slaves and the bricks.

3 tn The phrase “who were” is supplied for clarity.

4 sn In vv. 6-14 the second section of the chapter describes the severe measures by the king to increase the labor by decreasing the material. The emphasis in this section must be on the harsh treatment of the people and Pharaoh’s reason for it – he accuses them of idleness because they want to go and worship. The real reason, of course, is that he wants to discredit Moses (v. 9) and keep the people as slaves.

5 tn Heb “went away and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.” The final phrase “so they did,” which is somewhat redundant in English, has been represented in the translation by the adverb “exactly.”

6 tn Heb “did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.” The final phrase “so they did,” which is somewhat redundant in English, has been represented in the translation by the adverb “exactly.”

7 sn The “Testimony” is a reference to the Ark of the Covenant; so the pot of manna would be placed before Yahweh in the tabernacle. W. C. Kaiser says that this later instruction came from a time after the tabernacle had been built (see Exod 25:10-22; W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:405). This is not a problem since the final part of this chapter had to have been included at the end of the forty years in the desert.

8 tn “for keeping.”

9 tn Heb “wise of heart”; here also “heart” would be a genitive of specification, showing that there were those who could make skillful decisions.