translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EXO

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “its horns were from it,” meaning from the same piece.


text: Heb “it”; the referent (the altar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “south side southward.”


text: While this verse could be translated as an independent sentence, it is probably to be subordinated as a circumstantial clause in line with Exod 27:10-12 , as well as v. 12 of this passage.


text: Here the phrase “the hangings were” has been supplied.


text: The phrase “there were” has been supplied.


text: The text simply has “their posts ten and their bases ten”; this may be added here as a circumstantial clause with the main sentence in order to make sense out of the construction.


text: The text simply says “seventy-five feet.”


text: The word literally means “shoulder.” The next words, “of the gate,” have been supplied here. The east end contained the courtyard’s entry with a wall of curtains on each side of the entry (see v. 15 ).


text: Heb “from this and from this” (cf, 17:12; 25:19; 26:13; 32:15 ; Josh 8:22, 33 ; 1 Kgs 10:19-20 ; Ezek 45:7 ).


text: Heb “they were banded with silver.”


text: This word is different from the word for hangings; it has more of the idea of a screen, shielding or securing the area.


text: The Hebrew word is פְּקוּדֵי ( pÿqude ), which in a slavishly literal way would be “visitations of” the tabernacle. But the word often has the idea of “numbering” or “appointing” as well. Here it is an accounting or enumeration of the materials that people brought, so the contemporary term “inventory” is a close approximation. By using this Hebrew word there is also the indication that whatever was given, i.e., appointed for the tabernacle, was changed forever in its use. This is consistent with this Hebrew root, which does have a sense of changing the destiny of someone (“God will surely visit you”). The list in this section will also be tied to the numbering of the people.


text: The same verb is used here, but now in the Pual perfect tense, third masculine singular. A translation “was numbered” or “was counted” works. The verb is singular because it refers to the tabernacle as a unit. This section will list what made up the tabernacle.


text: Heb “at/by the mouth of.”


text: The noun is “work” or “service.” S. R. Driver explains that the reckonings were not made for the Levites, but that they were the work of the Levites, done by them under the direction of Ithamar ( Exodus , 393).


text: Heb “by the hand of.”


text: These words form the casus pendens , or independent nominative absolute, followed by the apodosis beginning with the vav ( ו ; see U. Cassuto, Exodus , 469).


text: Heb “and it was.”


text: Heb “upward.”


text: The phrase “in all” has been supplied.


text: Here the word “shekels” is understood; about 45 pounds.