Exodus 29:45

Hebrew Bible

44 “So I will set apart as holy the tent of meeting and the altar, and I will set apart as holy Aaron and his sons that they may minister as priests to me. 45 I will reside among the Israelites, and I will be their God, 46 and they will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, so that I may reside among them. I am the Lord their God.

Onkelos Exodus 29:45

Targum

44 So I will consecrate the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests. 45 I will cause my Shekinah to dwell among the Israelites, and I will be their God. 46 They will know that I the Lord am their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt that I might cause my Shekinah to dwell among them, I the Lord am their God.

 Notes and References

"... Onkelos inserts Shekhinah (God's presence), to remove the anthropomorphism, when the Bible mentions God dwelling in heaven or among the Israelites ... the Targum singularizes the biblical Elohim (which is a plural form) to escape the undesirable notion of a polytheistic deity ..."

Drazin, Israel, and Stanley M. Wagner Onkelos on the Torah, Exodus: Understanding the Bible Text (pp. 203-204) Gefen, 2006

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