Discovery BoxExodus 9:25 
Context9:25 The hail struck everything in the open fields, both 1 people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows 2 in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.
Exodus 14:7
Context14:7 He took six hundred select 3 chariots, and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt, 4 and officers 5 on all of them.
Exodus 19:8
Context19:8 and all the people answered together, “All that the Lord has commanded we will do!” 6 So Moses brought the words of the people back to the Lord.
Exodus 39:32
Context39:32 7 So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses – they did it exactly so.
1 tn The exact expression is “from man even to beast.” R. J. Williams lists this as an example of the inclusive use of the preposition מִן (min) to be rendered “both…and” (Hebrew Syntax, 57, §327).
2 tn Heb “all the cultivated grain of.”
3 tn The passive participle of the verb “to choose” means that these were “choice” or superb chariots.
4 tn Heb “every chariot of Egypt.” After the mention of the best chariots, the meaning of this description is “all the other chariots.”
5 tn The word שָׁלִשִׁם (shalishim) means “officers” or some special kind of military personnel. At one time it was taken to mean a “three man chariot,” but the pictures of Egyptian chariots only show two in a chariot. It may mean officers near the king, “men of the third rank” (B. Jacob, Exodus, 394). So the chariots and the crew represented the elite. See the old view by A. E. Cowley that linked it to a Hittite word (“A Hittite Word in Hebrew,” JTS 21 [1920]: 326), and the more recent work by P. C. Craigie connecting it to Egyptian “commander” (“An Egyptian Expression in the Song of the Sea: Exodus XV.4,” VT 20 [1970]: 85).
6 tn The verb is an imperfect. The people are not being presumptuous in stating their compliance – there are several options open for the interpretation of this tense. It may be classified as having a desiderative nuance: “we are willing to do” or, “we will do.”
7 sn The last sections of the book bring several themes together to a full conclusion. Not only is it the completion of the tabernacle, it is the fulfillment of God’s plan revealed at the beginning of the book, i.e., to reside with his people.
