translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EXO

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “and Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying.”


text: Heb “you will raise,” an imperfect of instruction.


text: Heb “and you will set in order its setting” or “arrange its arrangement.” See 25:29-30 for items that belonged on the table.


text: Heb “give” (also four additional times in vv. 6-8 ).


text: Heb “there.”


text: Heb “and.”


text: The verb is “bring near,” or “present,” to Yahweh.


text: The verb is also “bring near” or “present.”


text: Heb “set up,” if it includes more than the curtain.


text: Or “shielding” (NIV); Heb “the veil of the covering” (cf. KJV).


text: Heb uses a cognate accusative construction, “he arranged the arrangement.”


text: The construction is the infinitive construct with the temporal preposition and the suffixed subjective genitive. This temporal clause indicates that the verb in the preceding verse was frequentative.


text: This is another infinitive construct in a temporal clause.


text: In this explanatory verse the verb is a customary imperfect.


text: The construction uses the Niphal infinitive construct to form the temporal clause.


text: The imperfect tense in this context describes a customary action.


text: The clause uses the Niphal infinitive construct in the temporal clause: “until the day of its being taken up.”


text: Here is another imperfect tense of the customary nuance.


text: Heb “to the eyes of all”; KJV, ASV, NASB “in the sight of all”; NRSV “before the eyes of all.”