translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EXO

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “to do them”; this is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.


text: This is an adverbial accusative of time.


text: The word is קֹדֶשׁ ( qodesh , “holiness”). S. R. Driver suggests that the word was transposed, and the line should read: “a sabbath of entire rest, holy to Jehovah” ( Exodus , 379). But the word may simply be taken as a substitution for “holy day.”


text: Heb “dwelling places”; KJV, ASV “habitations.”


text: Heb “from with you.”


text: “Heart” is a genitive of specification, clarifying in what way they might be “willing.” The heart refers to their will, their choices.


text: The verb has a suffix that is the direct object, but the suffixed object is qualified by the second accusative: “let him bring it, an offering.”


text: The phrase is literally “the offering of Yahweh”; it could be a simple possessive, “Yahweh’s offering,” but a genitive that indicates the indirect object is more appropriate.


text: See the note on this phrase in Exod 25:5 .


text: Heb “and stones.”


text: Heb “filling.”


text: Heb “wise of heart”; here also “heart” would be a genitive of specification, showing that there were those who could make skillful decisions.


text: In Hebrew style all these items are typically connected with a vav ( ו ) conjunction, but English typically uses commas except between the last two items in a series or between items in a series that are somehow related to one another. The present translation follows contemporary English style in lists such as this.


text: “for” has been supplied.


text: Heb “man.”


text: The verb means “lift up, bear, carry.” Here the subject is “heart” or will, and so the expression describes one moved within to act.


text: Heb “his spirit made him willing.” The verb is used in Scripture for the freewill offering that people brought ().


text: Literally “the garments of holiness,” the genitive is the attributive genitive, marking out what type of garments these were.


text: The expression in Hebrew is “men on/after the women,” meaning men with women, to ensure that it was clear that the preceding verse did not mean only men. B. Jacob takes it further, saying that the men came after the women because the latter had taken the initiative ( Exodus , 1017).


text: Heb “all gold utensils.”


text: The verb could be translated “offered,” but it is cognate with the following noun that is the wave offering. This sentence underscores the freewill nature of the offerings people made. The word “came” is supplied from v. 21 and v. 22 .


text: The text uses a relative clause with a resumptive pronoun for this: “who was found with him,” meaning “with whom was found.”


text: The conjunction in this verse is translated “or” because the sentence does not intend to say that each person had all these things. They brought what they had.


text: Here “them” has been supplied.


text: This translation takes “offering” as an adverbial accusative explaining the form or purpose of their bringing things. It could also be rendered as the direct object, but that would seem to repeat without much difference what had just been said.


text: Here “it” has been supplied.


text: Heb “wisdom of heart,” which means that they were skilled and could make all the right choices about the work.


text: The text simply uses a prepositional phrase, “with/in wisdom.” It seems to be qualifying “the women” as the relative clause is.


text: Heb “and stones of the filling.”


text: Heb “by the hand of.”


text: Heb “called by name” (so KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV). This expression means that the person was specifically chosen for some important task (S. R. Driver, Exodus , 342). See the expression with Cyrus in Isa 45:3-4 .


text: Heb “to set.”


text: Heb “in every work of thought,” meaning, every work that required the implementation of design or plan.


text: The expression “wisdom of heart,” or “wisdom in heart,” means artistic skill. The decisions and plans they make are skilled. The expression forms a second accusative after the verb of filling.


text: The expression “all the work” means “all kinds of work.”


text: Here “They are” has been supplied.


text: Heb “doers of all work.”


text: Heb “designers of designs.”