Discovery BoxExodus 29:42 
Context29:42 “This will be a regular 1 burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet 2 with you to speak to you there.
Exodus 30:16
Context30:16 You are to receive the atonement money 3 from the Israelites and give it for the service 4 of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial 5 for the Israelites before the Lord, to make atonement 6 for your lives.”
1 tn The translation has “regular” instead of “continually,” because they will be preparing this twice a day.
2 tn The relative clause identifies the place in front of the Tent as the place that Yahweh would meet Moses. The main verb of the clause is אִוָּעֵד (’ivva’ed), a Niphal imperfect of the verb יָעַד (ya’ad), the verb that is cognate to the name “tent of meeting” – hence the name. This clause leads into the next four verses.
3 tn Heb “the silver of the atonements.” The genitive here is the result (as in “sheep of slaughter”) telling what the money will be used for (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 11, §44).
4 sn The idea of “service” is maintenance and care of the sanctuary and its service, meaning the morning and evening sacrifices and the other elements to be used.
5 sn S. R. Driver says this is “to keep Jehovah in continual remembrance of the ransom which had been paid for their lives” (Exodus, 334).
6 tn The infinitive could be taken in a couple of ways here. It could be an epexegetical infinitive: “making atonement.” Or it could be the infinitive expressing result: “so that atonement will be made for your lives.”
