translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EXO

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “wise of [in] heart.”


text: Heb “wisdom.”


text: Heb “understanding, discernment.”


text: The relative clause includes this infinitive clause that expresses either the purpose or the result of God’s giving wisdom and understanding to these folk.


text: This noun is usually given an interpretive translation. B. Jacob renders the bound relationship as “the holy task” or “the sacred task” ( Exodus , 1019). The NIV makes it “constructing,” so read “the work of constructing the sanctuary.”


text: The first word of the verse is a perfect tense with vav ( ו ) consecutive; it is singular because it agrees with the first of the compound subject. The sentence is a little cumbersome because of the extended relative clause in the middle.


text: The verb קָרָא ( qara ’) plus the preposition “to” – “to call to” someone means “to summon” that person.


text: Here there is a slight change: “in whose heart Yahweh had put skill.”


text: Or “whose heart was willing.”


text: In the Hebrew text the infinitive “to do it” comes after “sanctuary”; it makes a smoother rendering in English to move it forward, rather than reading “brought for the work.”


text: Heb “in the morning, in the morning.”


text: Heb “a man, a man from his work”; or “each one from his work.”


text: The construction uses the verbal hendiadys: מַרְבִּים לְהָבִיא ( marbim lÿhavi ’) is the Hiphil participle followed (after the subject) by the Hiphil infinitive construct. It would read, “they multiply…to bring,” meaning, “they bring more” than is needed.


text: Heb “for the service” (so KJV, ASV).


text: The last clause is merely the infinitive with an object – “to do it.” It clearly means the skilled workers are to do it.


text: The verse simply reads, “and Moses commanded and they caused [a voice] to cross over in the camp.” The second preterite with the vav may be subordinated to the first clause, giving the intent (purpose or result).


text: Heb “voice.”


text: The verse ends with the infinitive serving as the object of the preposition: “from bringing.”


text: This part of the sentence comes from the final verb, the Hiphil infinitive – leave over, meaning, have more than enough (see BDB 451 s.v. יָתַר ).


text: Heb “for all the work, to do it.” sn This lengthy section ( 35:1-36:7 ) forms one of the most remarkable sections in the book. Here there is a mixture of God’s preparation of people to do the work and their willingness to give and to serve. It not only provides insight into this renewed community of believers, but it also provides a timeless message for the church. The point is clear enough: In response to God’s commission, and inspired by God’s Spirit, the faithful and willing people rally to support and participate in the Lord ’s work.


text: The verb is singular since it probably is referring to Bezalel, but since he would not do all the work himself, it may be that the verbs could be given a plural subject: “they joined.”


text: The words “the other” have been supplied.


text: Heb “one.”


text: Heb “eleven curtains he made them.”


text: The construction uses the infinitive construct from the verb “to be” to express this purpose clause: “to be one,” or, “so that it might be a unit.”


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


text: There is debate whether the word הַקְּרָשִׁים ( haqqÿrashim ) means “boards” or “frames” or “planks” (see Ezek 27:6 ) or “beams,” given the size of them. The literature on this includes M. Haran, “The Priestly Image of the Tabernacle,” HUCA 36 (1965): 192; B. A. Levine, “The Description of the Tabernacle Texts of the Pentateuch,” JAOS 85 (1965): 307-18; J. Morgenstern, “The Ark, the Ephod, and the Tent,” HUCA 17 (1942/43): 153-265; 18 (1943/44): 1-52.


text: “Wood” is an adverbial accusative.


text: The plural participle “standing” refers to how these items will be situated; they will be vertical rather than horizontal (U. Cassuto, Exodus , 354).


text: Heb “the frame.”


text: Heb “the one.”


text: Heb “two hands to the one frame.”


text: Heb “joined one to one.”


text: The clause is repeated to show the distributive sense; it literally says, “and two bases under the one frame for its two projections.”


text: Heb “under the one frame” again.


text: This is the last phrase of the verse, moved forward for clarity.


text: This difficult verse uses the perfect tense at the beginning, and the second clause parallels it with יִהְיוּ ( yihyu ), which has to be taken here as a preterite without the consecutive vav ( ו ). The predicate “finished” or “completed” is the word תָּמִּים ( tammim ); it normally means “complete, sound, whole,” and related words describe the sacrifices as without blemish.


text: Literally “houses”; i.e., places to hold the bars.


text: The verb is simply “he made” but as in Exod 26:31 it probably means that the cherubim were worked into the curtain with the yarn, and so embroidered on the curtain.


text: Heb “and their hooks gold.”


text: The word is “their heads”; technically it would be “their capitals” (so ASV, NAB, NRSV). The bands were bands of metal surrounding these capitals just beneath them. These are not mentioned in Exod 26:37 , and it sounds like the posts are to be covered with gold. But the gradation of metals is what is intended: the posts at the entrance to the Most Holy Place are all of gold; the posts at the entrance to the tent are overlaid with gold at the top; and the posts at the entrance to the courtyard are overlaid with silver at the top (S. R. Driver, Exodus , 387, citing Dillmann without reference).