Keluaran 23:25

23:25 You must serve ¹  the Lord your God, and he ²  will bless your bread and your water, ³  and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Keluaran 25:32

25:32 Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand, ⁴  three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. ⁵ 

Keluaran 25:34

25:34 On the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms,

Keluaran 25:36

25:36 Their buds and their branches will be one piece, ⁶  all of it one hammered piece of pure gold.

Keluaran 30:33

30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest ⁷  will be cut off ⁸  from his people.’”

[23:25]  ¹ tn The perfect tense, masculine plural, with vav (ו) consecutive is in sequence with the preceding: do not bow down to them, but serve Yahweh. It is then the equivalent of an imperfect of instruction or injunction.

[23:25]  ² tn The LXX reads “and I will bless” to make the verb conform with the speaker, Yahweh.

[23:25]  ³ sn On this unusual clause B. Jacob says that it is the reversal of the curse in Genesis, because the “bread and water” represent the field work and ground suitability for abundant blessing of provisions (Exodus, 734).

[25:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the sides of it.”

[25:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the second side.”

[25:36]  ⁶ tn Heb “will be from it.”

[30:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “a stranger,” meaning someone not ordained a priest.

[30:33]  ⁸ sn The rabbinic interpretation of this is that it is a penalty imposed by heaven, that the life will be cut short and the person could die childless.