Discovery BoxExodus 22:27 
Context22:27 for it is his only covering – it is his garment for his body. 1 What else can he sleep in? 2 And 3 when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.
Exodus 29:33
Context29:33 They are to eat those things by which atonement was made 4 to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else 5 may eat them, for they are holy.
1 tn Heb “his skin.”
2 tn Literally the text reads, “In what can he lie down?” The cloak would be used for a covering at night to use when sleeping. The garment, then, was the property that could not be taken and not given back – it was the last possession. The modern idiom of “the shirt off his back” gets at the point being made here.
3 tn Heb “and it will be.”
4 tn The clause is a relative clause modifying “those things,” the direct object of the verb “eat.” The relative clause has a resumptive pronoun: “which atonement was made by them” becomes “by which atonement was made.” The verb is a Pual perfect of כִּפֵּר (kipper, “to expiate, atone, pacify”).
5 tn The Hebrew word is “stranger, alien” (זָר, zar). But in this context it means anyone who is not a priest (see S. R. Driver, Exodus, 324).
