Keluaran 16:17

16:17 The Israelites did so, and they gathered – some more, some less.

Keluaran 19:15

19:15 He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.” ¹ 

Keluaran 25:16

25:16 You are to put into the ark the testimony ²  that I will give to you.

Keluaran 26:8

26:8 The length of each ³  curtain is to be forty-five feet, and the width of each curtain is to be six feet – the same size for the eleven curtains.

Keluaran 27:6

27:6 You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.

Keluaran 36:15

36:15 The length of one curtain was forty-five feet, and the width of one curtain was six feet – one size for all eleven curtains.

[19:15]  ¹ tn Heb “do not go near a woman”; NIV “Abstain from sexual relations.”

[19:15]  sn B. Jacob (Exodus, 537) notes that as the people were to approach him they were not to lose themselves in earthly love. Such separations prepared the people for meeting God. Sinai was like a bride, forbidden to anyone else. Abstinence was the spiritual preparation for coming into the presence of the Holy One.

[25:16]  ² sn The “testimony” is the Decalogue (Exod 24:12; 31:18; Deut 4:13; 9:9; 1 Kgs 8:9); the word identifies it as the witness or affirmation of God’s commandments belonging to his covenant with Israel. It expressed God’s will and man’s duty. In other cultures important documents were put at the feet of the gods in the temples.

[26:8]  ³ tn Heb “one”