Exodus 9:25

9:25 The hail struck everything in the open fields, both 1  people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows 2  in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.

Exodus 23:24

23:24 “You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones 3  to pieces. 4 

Exodus 28:25

28:25 the other 5  two ends of the two chains you will attach to the two settings and then attach them 6  to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

Exodus 28:27

28:27 You are to make two more 7  gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod.

Exodus 32:19

32:19 When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. 8  He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain. 9 

Exodus 39:18

39:18 the other 10  two ends of the two chains they attached to the two settings, and they attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

Exodus 39:20

39:20 They made two more 11  gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the juncture above the waistband of the ephod.

1 tn The exact expression is “from man even to beast.” R. J. Williams lists this as an example of the inclusive use of the preposition מִן (min) to be rendered “both…and” (Hebrew Syntax, 57, §327).

2 tn Heb “all the cultivated grain of.”

3 tn The Hebrew is מַצֵּבֹתֵיהֶם (matsevotehem, “their standing stones”); these long stones were erected to represent the abode of the numen or deity. They were usually set up near the altar or the high place. To destroy these would be to destroy the centers of Canaanite worship in the land.

4 tn Both verbs are joined with their infinitive absolutes to provide the strongest sense to these instructions. The images of the false gods in Canaan were to be completely and utterly destroyed. This could not be said any more strongly.

5 tn Here “the other” has been supplied.

6 tn Here “them” has been supplied.

7 tn Here “more” has been supplied.

8 tn Heb “and the anger of Moses burned hot.”

9 sn See N. M. Waldham, “The Breaking of the Tablets,” Judaism 27 (1978): 442-47.

10 tn Here “other” has been supplied.

11 tn Here “more” has been supplied.