Exodus 34:33
Context34:33 When Moses finished 1 speaking 2 with them, he would 3 put a veil on his face.
Exodus 34:35
Context34:35 When the Israelites would see 4 the face of Moses, that 5 the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord. 6
1 tn Heb “and Moses finished”; the clause is subordinated as a temporal clause to the next clause.
2 tn The Piel infinitive construct is the object of the preposition; the whole phrase serves as the direct object of the verb “finished.”
3 tn Throughout this section the actions of Moses and the people are frequentative. The text tells what happened regularly.
4 tn Now the perfect tense with vav consecutive is subordinated to the next clause, “Moses returned the veil….”
5 tn Verbs of seeing often take two accusatives. Here, the second is the noun clause explaining what it was about the face that they saw.
6 tn Heb “with him”; the referent (the