translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EXO

label: NET translator note

text: The verb is the infinitive that means “to do, to work.” It could be given a literal rendering: “to work [them into] the blue….” Weaving or embroidering is probably what is intended.


text: Heb “from it” or the same.


text: Or “as seals are engraved.”


text: Or “attached.”


text: That is, they set in mountings.


text: The phrase “the number of” has been supplied.


text: Here “upper” has been supplied.


text: Here “other” has been supplied.


text: Heb “homeward side.”


text: Here “more” has been supplied.


text: The word is simply “twined” or “twisted.” It may refer to the twisted linen that so frequently is found in these lists; or, it may refer to the yarn twisted. The LXX reads “fine twined linen.” This is not found in the text of Exod 28:33 , except in Smr and LXX.


text: The words “there was” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.


text: The infinitive “to minister” is present; “to be used” is supplied from the context.


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


text: Or “shielding” (NIV); NASB “the screening veil.”


text: Possibly meaning “pure gold lampstand.”


text: Heb “utensils, vessels.”


text: The form is the infinitive construct; it means the clothes to be used “to minister” in the holy place.


text: Or “examined” (NASB, TEV); NCV “looked closely at.”


text: The deictic particle draws attention to what he saw in such a way as to give the reader Moses’ point of view and a sense of his pleasure: “and behold, they…”