And he made loops … is almost identical with 26.4, with the main difference in the verb, he made. Good News Translation and others have “They made,” in keeping with the context. (See verse 8.) Likewise he made them … is also identical except for the verb. The same choice of words used in 26.4 should be used here.

Verse 12 is almost identical with 26.5. Here again the verb is changed from “you shall make” to he made, which is better translated as “they made.” The loops were opposite one another is literally “matching [were] the loops one unto one.” (In 26.5 it is “a woman unto her sister.”)

Quoted with permission from Osborn, Noel D. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Exodus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1999. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .