Exodus 7:24

7:24 All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, ¹  because they could not drink the water of the Nile.

Exodus 8:4

8:4 Frogs ²  will come up against you, your people, and all your servants.”’” ³ 

Exodus 27:17

27:17 All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands; ⁴  their hooks are to be ⁵  silver, and their bases bronze.

Exodus 31:7

31:7 the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the atonement lid that is on it, all the furnishings ⁶  of the tent,

Exodus 31:9

31:9 the altar for the burnt offering with all its utensils, the large basin with its base,

Exodus 32:3

32:3 So all ⁷  the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Exodus 36:22

36:22 with ⁸  two projections per frame parallel one to another. ⁹  He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

Exodus 39:37

39:37 the pure ¹⁰  lampstand, its lamps, with the lamps set in order, and all its accessories, and oil for the light;

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¹ sn The text stresses that the water in the Nile, and Nile water that had been diverted or collected for use, was polluted and undrinkable. Water underground also was from the Nile, but it had not been contaminated, certainly not with dead fish, and so would be drinkable.

² tn Here again is the generic use of the article, designating the class – frogs.

³ sn The word order of the Hebrew text is important because it shows how the plague was pointedly directed at Pharaoh: “and against you, and against your people, and against all your servants frogs will go up.”

⁴ tn The text uses the passive participle here: they are to “be filleted with silver” or “bound round” with silver.

⁵ tn Here the phrase “are to be” has been supplied.

⁶ tn Heb “all the vessels of the tent.”

⁷ tn This “all” is a natural hyperbole in the narrative, for it means the large majority of the people.

⁸ tn Heb “two hands to the one frame.”

⁹ tn Heb “joined one to one.”

¹⁰ tn Possibly meaning “pure gold lampstand.”