Discovery BoxExodus 19:17 
Context19:17 Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.
Exodus 29:14
Context29:14 But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up 1 outside the camp. 2 It is the purification offering. 3
Exodus 32:17
Context32:17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, 4 he said to Moses, “It is the sound of war in the camp!”
Exodus 32:26
Context32:26 So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come 5 to me.” 6 All the Levites gathered around him,
1 tn Heb “burn with fire.”
2 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.
3 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.
4 sn See F. C. Fensham, “New Light from Ugaritica V on Ex, 32:17 (br’h),” JNSL 2 (1972): 86-7.
5 tn “come” is not in the text, but has been supplied.
6 tn S. R. Driver suggests that the command was tersely put: “Who is for Yahweh? To me!” (Exodus, 354).
