24:3 Outside the veil-canopy3 of the congregation in the Meeting Tent Aaron4 must arrange it from evening until morning before the Lord continually. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations.5
tn The Hebrew term פָּרֹכֶת (parokhet) is usually translated “veil” or “curtain,” but it seems to have stretched not only in front of but also over the top of the ark of the covenant which stood behind and under it inside the most holy place (see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 3:687–89).
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tc Several medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, and the LXX add “and his sons.”