Discovery BoxExodus 8:15 
Context8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, 1 he hardened 2 his heart and did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted. 3
Exodus 8:27
Context8:27 We must go 4 on a three-day journey 5 into the desert and sacrifice 6 to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us.” 7
Exodus 9:12
Context9:12 But the Lord hardened 8 Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted to Moses.
Exodus 12:25
Context12:25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give to you, just as he said, you must observe 9 this ceremony.
Exodus 16:24
Context16:24 So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.
Exodus 17:10
Context17:10 So Joshua fought against Amalek just as Moses had instructed him; 10 and Moses and Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
Exodus 27:8
Context27:8 You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you 11 on the mountain, so they must make it. 12
Exodus 31:11
Context31:11 the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the Holy Place. They will make all these things just as I have commanded you.”
Exodus 39:7
Context39:7 He put 13 them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:29
Context39:29 The sash was of fine twisted linen and blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, the work of an embroiderer, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:31
Context39:31 They attached to it a blue cord, to attach it to the turban above, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:43
Context39:43 Moses inspected 14 all the work – and 15 they had done it just as the Lord had commanded – they had done it exactly – and Moses blessed them. 16
Exodus 40:21
Context40:21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung 17 the protecting curtain, 18 and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:32
Context40:32 Whenever they entered 19 the tent of meeting, and whenever they approached 20 the altar, they would wash, 21 just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
1 tn The word רְוָחָה (rÿvakhah) means “respite, relief.” BDB 926 relates it to the verb רָוַח (ravakh, “to be wide, spacious”). There would be relief when there was freedom to move about.
2 tn וְהַכְבֵּד (vÿhakhbed) is a Hiphil infinitive absolute, functioning as a finite verb. The meaning of the word is “to make heavy,” and so stubborn, sluggish, indifferent. It summarizes his attitude and the outcome, that he refused to keep his promises.
3 sn The end of the plague revealed clearly God’s absolute control over Egypt’s life and deities – all at the power of the man who prayed to God. Yahweh had made life unpleasant for the people by sending the plague, but he was also the one who could remove it. The only recourse anyone has in such trouble is to pray to the sovereign Lord God. Everyone should know that there is no one like Yahweh.
4 tn The verb נֵלֵךְ (nelekh) is a Qal imperfect of the verb הָלַךְ (halakh). Here it should be given the modal nuance of obligation: “we must go.”
5 tn This clause is placed first in the sentence to stress the distance required. דֶּרֶךְ (derekh) is an adverbial accusative specifying how far they must go. It is in construct, so “three days” modifies it. It is a “journey of three days,” or, “a three day journey.”
6 tn The form is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive; it follows in the sequence: we must go…and then [must] sacrifice.”
7 tn The form is the imperfect tense. It could be future: “as he will tell us,” but it also could be the progressive imperfect if this is now what God is telling them to do: “as he is telling us.”
8 tn This phrase translates the Hebrew word חָזַק (khazaq); see S. R. Driver, Exodus, 53.
9 tn The verb used here and at the beginning of v. 24 is שָׁמַר (shamar); it can be translated “watch, keep, protect,” but in this context the point is to “observe” the religious customs and practices set forth in these instructions.
10 tn The line in Hebrew reads literally: And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, to fight with Amalek. The infinitive construct is epexegetical, explaining what Joshua did that was in compliance with Moses’ words.
11 tn The verb is used impersonally; it reads “just as he showed you.” This form then can be made a passive in the translation.
12 tn Heb “thus they will make.” Here too it could be given a passive translation since the subject is not expressed. But “they” would normally refer to the people who will be making this and so can be retained in the translation.
sn Nothing is said about the top of the altar. Some commentators suggest, in view of the previous instruction for making an altar out of earth and stone, that when this one was to be used it would be filled up with dirt clods and the animal burnt on the top of that. If the animal was burnt inside it, the wood would quickly burn. A number of recent scholars think this was simply an imagined plan to make a portable altar after the pattern of Solomon’s – but that is an unsatisfactory suggestion. This construction must simply represent a portable frame for the altar in the courtyard, an improvement over the field altar. The purpose and function of the altar are not in question. Here worshipers would make their sacrifices to God in order to find forgiveness and atonement, and in order to celebrate in worship with him. No one could worship God apart from this; no one could approach God apart from this. So too the truths that this altar communicated form the basis and center of all Christian worship. One could word an applicable lesson this way: Believers must ensure that the foundation and center of their worship is the altar, i.e., the sacrificial atonement.
13 tn Or “attached.”
14 tn Or “examined” (NASB, TEV); NCV “looked closely at.”
15 tn The deictic particle draws attention to what he saw in such a way as to give the reader Moses’ point of view and a sense of his pleasure: “and behold, they…”
16 sn The situation and wording in Exod 39:43 are reminiscent of Gen 1:28 and 31, with the motifs of blessing people and inspecting what has been made.
17 tn Heb “set up,” if it includes more than the curtain.
18 tn Or “shielding” (NIV); Heb “the veil of the covering” (cf. KJV).
19 tn The construction is the infinitive construct with the temporal preposition and the suffixed subjective genitive. This temporal clause indicates that the verb in the preceding verse was frequentative.
20 tn This is another infinitive construct in a temporal clause.
21 tn In this explanatory verse the verb is a customary imperfect.
