Discovery BoxExodus 2:5 
Context2:5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh 1 came down to wash herself 2 by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, 3 and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, 4 took it, 5
Exodus 2:9
Context2:9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child 6 and nurse him for me, and I will pay your 7 wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
Exodus 4:25
Context4:25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, 8 and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood 9 to me.”
Exodus 9:10
Context9:10 So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.
Exodus 13:19
Context13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph 10 had made the Israelites solemnly swear, 11 “God will surely attend 12 to you, and you will carry 13 my bones up from this place with you.”
Exodus 15:20
Context15:20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a hand-drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with hand-drums and with dances. 14
Exodus 24:7-8
Context24:7 He took the Book of the Covenant 15 and read it aloud 16 to the people, and they said, “We are willing to do and obey 17 all that the Lord has spoken.” 24:8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on 18 the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant 19 that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
Exodus 32:20
Context32:20 He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it 20 to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it. 21
Exodus 34:4
Context34:4 So Moses 22 cut out two tablets of stone like the first; 23 early in the morning he went up 24 to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.
1 sn It is impossible, perhaps, to identify with certainty who this person was. For those who have taken a view that Rameses was the pharaoh, there were numerous daughters for Rameses. She is named Tharmuth in Jub. 47:5; Josephus spells it Thermouthis (Ant. 2.9.5 [2.224]), but Eusebius has Merris (Praep. Ev. ix. 27). E. H. Merrill (Kingdom of Priests, 60) makes a reasonable case for her identification as the famous Hatshepsut, daughter of Thutmose I. She would have been there about the time of Moses’ birth, and the general picture of her from history shows her to be the kind of princess with enough courage to countermand a decree of her father.
2 tn Or “bathe.”
3 sn A disjunctive vav initiates here a circumstantial clause. The picture is one of a royal entourage coming down to the edge of a tributary of the river, and while the princess was bathing, her female attendants were walking along the edge of the water out of the way of the princess. They may not have witnessed the discovery or the discussion.
4 tn The word here is אָמָה (’amah), which means “female slave.” The word translated “attendants” earlier in the verse is נַעֲרֹת (na’arot, “young women”), possibly referring here to an assortment of servants and companions.
5 tn The verb is preterite, third person feminine singular, with a pronominal suffix, from לָקַח (laqakh, “to take”). The form says literally “and she took it,” and retains the princess as the subject of the verb.
6 tn The verb is the Hiphil imperative of the verb הָלַךְ (halakh), and so is properly rendered “cause to go” or “take away.”
7 tn The possessive pronoun on the noun “wage” expresses the indirect object: “I will pay wages to you.”
8 tn Heb “to his feet.” The referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The LXX has “and she fell at his feet” and then “the blood of the circumcision of my son stood.” But it is clear that she caused the foreskin to touch Moses’ feet, as if the one were a substitution for the other, taking the place of the other (see U. Cassuto, Exodus, 60).
9 sn U. Cassuto explains that she was saying, “I have delivered you from death, and your return to life makes you my bridegroom a second time, this time my blood bridegroom, a bridegroom acquired through blood” (Exodus, 60-61).
10 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn Heb “solemnly swear, saying” (so NASB). The construction uses the Hiphil infinitive absolute with the Hiphil perfect to stress that Joseph had made them take a solemn oath to carry his bones out of Egypt. “Saying” introduces the content of what Joseph said.
12 sn This verb appears also in 3:16 and 4:31. The repetition here is a reminder that God was doing what he had said he would do and what Joseph had expected.
13 tn The form is a Hiphil perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; it follows in the sequence of the imperfect tense before it, and so is equal to an imperfect of injunction (because of the solemn oath). Israel took Joseph’s bones with them as a sign of piety toward the past and as a symbol of their previous bond with Canaan (B. Jacob, Exodus, 380).
14 sn See J. N. Easton, “Dancing in the Old Testament,” ExpTim 86 (1975): 136-40.
15 tn The noun “book” would be the scroll just written containing the laws of chaps. 20-23. On the basis of this scroll the covenant would be concluded here. The reading of this book would assure the people that it was the same that they had agreed to earlier. But now their statement of willingness to obey would be more binding, because their promise would be confirmed by a covenant of blood.
16 tn Heb “read it in the ears of.”
17 tn A second verb is now added to the people’s response, and it is clearly an imperfect and not a cohortative, lending support for the choice of desiderative imperfect in these commitments – “we want to obey.” This was their compliance with the covenant.
18 tn Given the size of the congregation, the preposition might be rendered here “toward the people” rather than on them (all).
19 sn The construct relationship “the blood of the covenant” means “the blood by which the covenant is ratified” (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 254). The parallel with the inauguration of the new covenant in the blood of Christ is striking (see, e.g., Matt 26:28, 1 Cor 11:25). When Jesus was inaugurating the new covenant, he was bringing to an end the old.
20 tn Here “it” has been supplied.
21 tn Here “it” has been supplied.
sn Pouring the ashes into the water running from the mountain in the brook (Deut 9:21) and making them drink it was a type of the bitter water test that tested the wife suspected of unfaithfulness. Here the reaction of the people who drank would indicate guilt or not (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 419).
22 tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified here and the name “Moses,” which occurs later in this verse, has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”), both for stylistic reasons.
23 sn Deuteronomy says that Moses was also to make an ark of acacia wood before the tablets, apparently to put the tablets in until the sanctuary was built. But this ark may not have been the ark built later; or, it might be the wood box, but Bezalel still had to do all the golden work with it.
24 tn The line reads “and Moses got up early in the morning and went up.” These verbs likely form a verbal hendiadys, the first one with its prepositional phrase serving in an adverbial sense.
