Discovery BoxExodus 2:6 
Context2:6 opened it, 1 and saw the child 2 – a boy, 3 crying! 4 – and she felt compassion 5 for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
Exodus 2:12
Context2:12 He looked this way and that 6 and saw that no one was there, 7 and then he attacked 8 the Egyptian and concealed the body 9 in the sand.
Exodus 8:10
Context8:10 He said, “Tomorrow.” And Moses said, 10 “It will be 11 as you say, 12 so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.
Exodus 8:31
Context8:31 and the Lord did as Moses asked 13 – he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!
Exodus 9:6
Context9:6 And the Lord did this 14 on the next day; 15 all 16 the livestock of the Egyptians 17 died, but of the Israelites’ livestock not one died.
Exodus 12:5
Context12:5 Your lamb must be 18 perfect, 19 a male, one year old; 20 you may take 21 it from the sheep or from the goats.
Exodus 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 18:3
Context18:3 and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses 22 had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”),
Exodus 21:10
Context21:10 If he takes another wife, 23 he must not diminish the first one’s food, 24 her clothing, or her marital rights. 25
Exodus 21:18
Context21:18 “If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed, 26
Exodus 21:21
Context21:21 However, if the injured servant 27 survives one or two days, the owner 28 will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss. 29
Exodus 23:29
Context23:29 I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals 30 multiply against you.
Exodus 26:17
Context26:17 with two projections 31 per frame parallel one to another. 32 You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
Exodus 26:24
Context26:24 At the two corners 33 they must be doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So it will be for both.
Exodus 27:14
Context27:14 The hangings on one side 34 of the gate are to be 35 twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases.
Exodus 28:10
Context28:10 six 36 of their names on one stone, and the six remaining names on the second stone, according to the order of their birth. 37
Exodus 29:3
Context29:3 You are to put them in one basket and present 38 them in the basket, along with 39 the bull and the two rams.
Exodus 29:15
Context29:15 “You are to take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head,
Exodus 36:13
Context36:13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was a unit. 40
Exodus 36:29
Context36:29 At the two corners 41 they were doubled at the lower end and 42 finished together at the top in one ring. So he did for both.
Exodus 37:3
Context37:3 He cast four gold rings for it that he put 43 on its four feet, with 44 two rings on one side and two rings on the other side.
Exodus 37:10
Context37:10 He made the table of acacia wood; its length was three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches.
Exodus 38:9
Context38:9 He made the courtyard. For the south side 45 the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long,
Exodus 38:14
Context38:14 with hangings on one side 46 of the gate that were twenty-two and a half feet long, with their three posts and their three bases,
Exodus 38:25
Context38:25 The silver of those who were numbered of the community was one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, 47 according to the sanctuary shekel,
1 tn Heb “and she opened.”
2 tn The grammatical construction has a pronominal suffix on the verb as the direct object along with the expressed object: “and she saw him, the child.” The second object defines the previous pronominal object to avoid misunderstanding (see GKC 425 §131.m).
3 tn The text has נַעַר (na’ar, “lad, boy, young man”), which in this context would mean a baby boy.
4 tn This clause is introduced with a disjunctive vav and the deictic particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “behold” in the KJV). The particle in this kind of clause introduces the unexpected – what Pharaoh’s daughter saw when she opened the basket: “and look, there was a baby boy crying.” The clause provides a parenthetical description of the child as she saw him when she opened the basket and does not advance the narrative. It is an important addition, however, for it puts readers in the position of looking with her into the basket and explains her compassion.
5 tn The verb could be given a more colloquial translation such as “she felt sorry for him.” But the verb is stronger than that; it means “to have compassion, to pity, to spare.” What she felt for the baby was strong enough to prompt her to spare the child from the fate decreed for Hebrew boys. Here is part of the irony of the passage: What was perceived by many to be a womanly weakness – compassion for a baby – is a strong enough emotion to prompt the woman to defy the orders of Pharaoh. The ruler had thought sparing women was safe, but the midwives, the Hebrew mother, the daughter of Pharaoh, and Miriam, all work together to spare one child – Moses (cf. 1 Cor 1:27-29).
6 tn The text literally says, “and he turned thus and thus” (וַיִּפֶן כֹּה וָכֹה, vayyifen koh vakhoh). It may indicate that he turned his gaze in all directions to ascertain that no one would observe what he did. Or, as B. Jacob argues, it may mean that he saw that there was no one to do justice and so he did it himself (Exodus, 37-38, citing Isa 59:15-16).
7 tn Heb “he saw that there was no man.”
8 sn The verb וַיַּךְ (vayyakh) is from the root נָכָה (nakhah, “to smite, attack”) which is used in v. 11. This new attack is fatal. The repetition of the verb, especially in Exodus, anticipates the idea of “eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” The problem is, however, that Moses was not authorized to take this matter into his own hands in this way. The question the next day was appropriate: “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?” The answer? No one – yet.
9 tn Heb “him”; for stylistic reasons the referent has been specified as “the body.”
10 tn Heb “And he said”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn “It will be” has been supplied.
12 tn Heb “according to your word” (so NASB).
13 tn Heb “according to the word of Moses” (so KJV, ASV).
14 tn Heb “this thing.”
15 tn Heb “on the morrow.”
16 tn The word “all” clearly does not mean “all” in the exclusive sense, because subsequent plagues involve cattle. The word must denote such a large number that whatever was left was insignificant for the economy. It could also be taken to mean “all [kinds of] livestock died.”
17 tn Heb “of Egypt.” The place is put by metonymy for the inhabitants.
18 tn The construction has: “[The] lamb…will be to you.” This may be interpreted as a possessive use of the lamed, meaning, “[the] lamb…you have” (your lamb) for the Passover. In the context instructing the people to take an animal for this festival, the idea is that the one they select, their animal, must meet these qualifications.
19 tn The Hebrew word תָּמִים (tamim) means “perfect” or “whole” or “complete” in the sense of not having blemishes and diseases – no physical defects. The rules for sacrificial animals applied here (see Lev 22:19-21; Deut 17:1).
20 tn The idiom says “a son of a year” (בֶּן־שָׁנָה, ben shanah), meaning a “yearling” or “one year old” (see GKC 418 §128.v).
21 tn Because a choice is being given in this last clause, the imperfect tense nuance of permission should be used. They must have a perfect animal, but it may be a sheep or a goat. The verb’s object “it” is supplied from the context.
22 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity (also in the following verse).
23 tn “wife” has been supplied.
24 tn The translation of “food” does not quite do justice to the Hebrew word. It is “flesh.” The issue here is that the family she was to marry into is wealthy, they ate meat. She was not just to be given the basic food the ordinary people ate, but the fine foods that this family ate.
25 sn See S. Paul, “Exodus 21:10, A Threefold Maintenance Clause,” JNES 28 (1969): 48-53. Paul suggests that the third element listed is not marital rights but ointments since Sumerian and Akkadian texts list food, clothing, and oil as the necessities of life. The translation of “marital rights” is far from certain, since the word occurs only here. The point is that the woman was to be cared for with all that was required for a woman in that situation.
26 tn Heb “falls to bed.”
27 tn Heb “if he”; the referent (the servant struck and injured in the previous verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
28 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the owner of the injured servant) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
29 tn This last clause is a free paraphrase of the Hebrew, “for he is his money” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “his property.” It seems that if the slave survives a couple of days, it is probable that the master was punishing him and not intending to kill him. If he then dies, there is no penalty other than that the owner loses the slave who is his property – he suffers the loss.
30 tn Heb “the beast of the field.”
31 sn Heb “hands,” the reference is probably to projections that served as stays or supports. They may have been tenons, or pegs, projecting from the bottom of the frames to hold the frames in their sockets (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 286).
32 tn Or “being joined each to the other.”
33 tn Heb “they will be for the two corners.” This is the last clause of the verse, moved forward for clarity.
34 tn The word literally means “shoulder.” The next words, “of the gate,” have been supplied here and in v. 15. The east end would contain the courtyard’s entry with a wall of curtains on each side of the entry (see v. 16).
35 tn Here “will be” has been supplied.
36 tn This is in apposition to the direct object of the verb “engrave.” It further defines how the names were to be engraved – six on one and the other six on the other.
37 tn Heb “according to their begettings” (the major word in the book of Genesis). What is meant is that the names would be listed in the order of their ages.
38 tn The verb קָרַב (qarav) in the Hiphil means to “bring near” to the altar, or, to offer something to God. These gifts will, therefore, be offered to him for the service of this ritual.
39 tn Heb “and with.”
40 tn Heb “one.”
41 tn This is the last phrase of the verse, moved forward for clarity.
42 tn This difficult verse uses the perfect tense at the beginning, and the second clause parallels it with יִהְיוּ (yihyu), which has to be taken here as a preterite without the consecutive vav (ו). The predicate “finished” or “completed” is the word תָּמִּים (tammim); it normally means “complete, sound, whole,” and related words describe the sacrifices as without blemish.
43 tn “that he put” has been supplied.
44 tn This is taken as a circumstantial clause; the clause begins with the conjunction vav.
45 tn Heb “south side southward.”
46 tn The word literally means “shoulder.” The next words, “of the gate,” have been supplied here. The east end contained the courtyard’s entry with a wall of curtains on each side of the entry (see v. 15).
47 sn This would be a total of 301,775 shekels (about 140,828 oz), being a half shekel exacted per person from 605,550 male Israelites 20 years old or more (Num 1:46). The amount is estimated to be around 3.75 tons.
