Exodus 36:1-3

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Exodus 36:1 tn Heb “wise of [in] heart.”
2. Exodus 36:1 tn Heb “wisdom.”
3. Exodus 36:1 tn Heb “understanding, discernment.”
4. Exodus 36:1 tn The relative clause includes this infinitive clause that expresses either the purpose or the result of God’s giving wisdom and understanding to these folk.
5. Exodus 36:1 tn This noun is usually given an interpretive translation. B. Jacob renders the bound relationship as “the holy task” or “the sacred task” (Exodus, 1019). The NIV makes it “constructing,” so read “the work of constructing the sanctuary.”
6. Exodus 36:1 tn The first word of the verse is a perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive; it is singular because it agrees with the first of the compound subject. The sentence is a little cumbersome because of the extended relative clause in the middle.
7. Exodus 36:2 tn The verb קָרָא (qaraʾ) plus the preposition “to”—“to call to” someone means “to summon” that person.
8. Exodus 36:2 tn Here there is a slight change: “in whose heart Yahweh had put skill.”
9. Exodus 36:2 tn Or “whose heart was willing.”
10. Exodus 36:2 sn The verb means more than “approach” or “draw near”; קָרַב (qarav) is the word used for drawing near the altar as in bringing an offering. Here they offer themselves, their talents and their time.
11. Exodus 36:3 tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive “to do it” comes after “sanctuary”; it makes a smoother rendering in English to move it forward, rather than reading “brought for the work.”
12. Exodus 36:3 tn Heb “in the morning, in the morning.”