Discovery BoxExodus 12:46 
Context12:46 It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.
Exodus 25:11
Context25:11 You are to overlay 1 it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, 2 and you are to make a surrounding border 3 of gold over it.
Exodus 29:14
Context29:14 But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up 4 outside the camp. 5 It is the purification offering. 6
1 tn The verbs throughout here are perfect tenses with the vav (ו) consecutives. They are equal to the imperfect tense of instruction and/or injunction.
2 tn Here the verb is an imperfect tense; for the perfect sequence to work the verb would have to be at the front of the clause.
3 tn The word זֵר (zer) is used only in Exodus and seems to describe something on the order of a crown molding, an ornamental border running at the top of the chest on all four sides. There is no indication of its appearance or function.
4 tn Heb “burn with fire.”
5 sn This is to be done because there is no priesthood yet. Once they are installed, then the sin/purification offering is to be eaten by the officiating priests as a sign that the offering was received. But priests could not consume their own sin offering.
6 sn There were two kinds of “purification offering,” those made with confession for sin and those made without. The title needs to cover both of them, and if it is called in the traditional way “the sin offering,” that will convey that when people offered it for skin diseases, menstruation, or having babies, they had sinned. That was not the case. Moreover, it is usual to translate the names of the sacrifices by what they do more than what they cover – so peace offering, reparation offering, and purification offering.
