Keluaran 39:43

39:43 Moses inspected ¹  all the work – and ²  they had done it just as the Lord had commanded – they had done it exactly – and Moses blessed them. ³ 

Bilangan 6:23

6:23 “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is the way ⁴  you are to bless ⁵  the Israelites. Say ⁶  to them:

[39:43]  ¹ tn Or “examined” (NASB, TEV); NCV “looked closely at.”

[39:43]  ² tn 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…”

[39:43]  ³ sn The situation and wording in Exod 39:43 are reminiscent of Gen 1:28 and 31, with the motifs of blessing people and inspecting what has been made.

[6:23]  ⁴ tn Or “thus.”

[6:23]  ⁵ tn The Piel imperfect has the nuance of instruction. The particle “thus” explains that the following oracle is the form to use.

[6:23]  ⁶ tn Here is the only use of the verb אָמַר (’amar) as an infinitive absolute; it functions as a verb form, an imperative or an imperfect of instruction. Several commentators have attempted to emend the text to get around the difficulty, but such emendations are unnecessary.