Keluaran 15:12

15:12 You stretched out your right hand,

the earth swallowed them. ¹ 

Keluaran 16:19

16:19 Moses said to them, “No one ²  is to keep any of it ³  until morning.”

Keluaran 18:6

18:6 He said ⁴  to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

Keluaran 22:19

22:19 “Whoever has sexual relations ⁵  with a beast must surely be put to death.

Keluaran 23:32

23:32 “You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Keluaran 29:8

29:8 You are to present his sons and clothe them with tunics

Keluaran 35:3

35:3 You must not kindle a fire ⁶  in any of your homes ⁷  on the Sabbath day.” ⁸ 

[15:12]  ¹ tn The verb is the prefixed conjugation, the preterite without the vav consecutive. The subject, the “earth,” must be inclusive of the sea, or it may indicate the grave or Sheol; the sea drowned them. Some scholars wish to see this as a reference to Dathan and Abiram, and therefore evidence of a later addition or compilation. It fits this passage well, however.

[16:19]  ² tn The address now is for “man” (אִישׁ, ’ish), “each one”; here the instruction seems to be focused on the individual heads of the households.

[16:19]  ³ tn Or “some of it,” “from it.”

[18:6]  ⁴ sn This verse may seem out of place, since the report has already been given that they came to the desert. It begins to provide details of the event that the previous verse summarizes. The announcement in verse 6 may have come in advance by means of a messenger or at the time of arrival, either of which would fit with the attention to formal greetings in verse 7. This would suit a meeting between two important men; the status of Moses has changed. The LXX solves the problem by taking the pronoun “I” as the particle “behold” and reads it this way: “one said to Moses, ‘Behold, your father-in-law has come….’”

[22:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “lies with.”

[35:3]  ⁶ sn Kindling a fire receives special attention here because the people thought that kindling a fire was not work, but only a preparation for some kind of work. The Law makes sure that this too was not done. But see also G. Robinson, “The Prohibition of Strange Fire in Ancient Israel: A Look at the Case of Gathering Wood and Kindling Fire on the Sabbath,” VT 28 (1978): 301-17.

[35:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “dwelling places”; KJV, ASV “habitations.”

[35:3]  ⁸ sn The presence of these three verses in this place has raised all kinds of questions. It may be that after the renewal of the covenant the people needed a reminder to obey God, and obeying the sign of the covenant was the starting point. But there is more to it than this; it is part of the narrative design of the book. It is the artistic design that puts the filling of the Spirit section (31:1-11) prior to the Sabbath laws (31:12-18) before the idolatry section, and then after the renewal there is the Sabbath reminder (35:1-3) before the filling of the Spirit material (35:4-36:7).