God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.”

The total number of Jacob’s descendants was 70; Joseph was already in Egypt.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy:

Then God spoke all these words:

Do not have other gods besides Me.

Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Do not murder.

Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

Do not steal.

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: Let My people go, so that they may hold a festival for Me in the wilderness.”

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

Do not commit adultery.

Now if you will listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine,

“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she is not to leave as the male slaves do.

For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.

Then the Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:

Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth,

You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses His name.

Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”

“When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. Anyone who does work on it must be executed.

And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

“You must not allow a sorceress to live.

Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!”

“This will take place,” He continued, “so they will believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Lord, who is like You among the gods?
Who is like You, glorious in holiness,
revered with praises, performing wonders?

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord. They said:

I will sing to the Lord,
for He is highly exalted;
He has thrown the horse
and its rider into the sea.

But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them.

Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them: The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ what should I tell them?”

Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

Then Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.

At Rephidim, Amalek came and fought against Israel.

Then you will say to Pharaoh: This is what Yahweh says: Israel is My firstborn son.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his family:

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai.

and you will be My kingdom of priests and My holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites.”

As Moses descended from Mount Sinai—with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain—he did not realize that the skin of his face shone as a result of his speaking with the Lord.

Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

and terror and dread will fall on them.
They will be as still as a stone
because of Your powerful arm
until Your people pass by, Lord,
until the people whom You purchased pass by.

Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman.

A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.

But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

Then the Lord told Moses, “This is what you are to say to the Israelites: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I did not reveal My name Yahweh to them.

You are never to bow down to another god because Yahweh, being jealous by nature, is a jealous God.

“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”

and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

You must not make gods of silver to rival Me; you must not make gods of gold for yourselves.

They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

Pharaoh then commanded all his people: “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”

So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very numerous.

Since the midwives feared God, He gave them families.

In addition the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, white as snow.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife can get to them.”

The Hebrew midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on man and beast.

That day Pharaoh commanded the overseers of the people as well as their foremen:

So the Israelites did this. Some gathered a lot, some a little.

I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Yahweh your God, who delivered you from the forced labor of the Egyptians.

You must not bow down to their gods or worship them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them and smash their sacred pillars to pieces.

“In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘By the strength of His hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

Instruct them about the statutes and laws, and teach them the way to live and what they must do.

Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreign resident or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel.

“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent.’”

The Lord directed Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the Lord; otherwise many of them will die.

The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians.

No, only the men may go and worship Yahweh, for that is what you have been asking for.” And they were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.

You will bring them in and plant them
on the mountain of Your possession;
Lord, You have prepared the place
for Your dwelling;
Lord, Your hands have established the sanctuary.

When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of livestock. That is why I sacrifice to the Lord all the firstborn of the womb that are males, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’

If you do mistreat them, they will no doubt cry to Me, and I will certainly hear their cry.

“You must make an earthen altar for Me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats, as well as your cattle. I will come to you and bless you in every place where I cause My name to be remembered.

You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat—you may do only that.

If you do this, and God so directs you, you will be able to endure, and also all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.

Even the priests who come near the Lord must purify themselves or the Lord will break out in anger against them.”

I will bring you to the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh.”

Then He said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” He put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it had again become like the rest of his skin.

“If they will not believe you and will not respond to the evidence of the first sign, they may believe the evidence of the second sign.

Moses said to Pharaoh, “You make the choice rather than me. When should I ask on behalf of you, your officials, and your people, that the frogs be taken away from you and your houses, and remain only in the Nile?”

“You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute.

But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

The Lord then said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt and the locusts will come up over it and eat every plant in the land, everything that the hail left.”

As for you, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

The Israelites’ cry for help has come to Me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.

“Don’t continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves.

Make four gold rings for it, and attach the rings to the four corners at its four legs.

And the Lord replied to him, “Go down and come back with Aaron. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the Lord, or He will break out in anger against them.”

Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.

My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.

So let it be a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for the Lord brought us out of Egypt by the strength of His hand.”

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had told Moses.

When your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean to you?’

But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers—the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices.

Therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

You are to eat unleavened bread in the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day.

Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it.

The Lord will reign forever and ever!

“Tell the Israelites: This will be My holy anointing oil throughout your generations.

And I have promised you that I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.

“Whenever he enters the sanctuary, Aaron is to carry the names of Israel’s sons over his heart on the breastpiece for decisions, as a continual reminder before the Lord.

He answered, “I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God at this mountain.”

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover animal.

The locusts went up over the entire land of Egypt and settled on the whole territory of Egypt. Never before had there been such a large number of locusts, and there never will be again.

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

And if they don’t believe even these two signs or listen to what you say, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”

“Tomorrow,” he answered.

Moses replied, “As you have said, so you may know there is no one like Yahweh our God,

Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and God be with you. You be the one to represent the people before God and bring their cases to Him.

But Moses responded to the Lord, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since You warned us: Put a boundary around the mountain and consider it holy.”

I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them, and I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh, all his army, and his chariots and horsemen.

Any priest who is one of his sons and who succeeds him and enters the tent of meeting to minister in the sanctuary must wear them for seven days.

And I will give these people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are slackers—that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

When she opened it, she saw the child—a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”

They gathered it every morning. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat, but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

However, Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.

So He led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation.

He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship Yahweh as you have asked.

Pharaoh urgently sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you.

Please forgive my sin once more and make an appeal to Yahweh your God, so that He will take this death away from me.”

Do not eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”

If you make a stone altar for Me, you must not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the Israelites go.

Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship Yahweh. Even your families may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”

Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the Lord.

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and through the night. By morning the east wind had brought in the locusts.

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

When Pharaoh’s horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

“Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.

Moses said to them, “No one is to let any of it remain until morning.”

Impose heavier work on the men. Then they will be occupied with it and not pay attention to deceptive words.”

When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as He promised, you are to observe this ritual.

the frogs will go away from you, your houses, your officials, and your people. The frogs will remain only in the Nile.”

“Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants.

Moses said, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”

Place the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece for decisions, so that they will also be over Aaron’s heart whenever he comes before the Lord. Aaron will continually carry the means of decisions for the Israelites over his heart before the Lord.

He told them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, and set aside everything left over to be kept until morning.’”

When the Lord passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, He will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you.

“I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I am Yahweh; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh. Tell him: This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Tomorrow at this time I will rain down the worst hail that has ever occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses, and He said, “Isn’t Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, he is on his way now to meet you. He will rejoice when he sees you.

Then the Israelites went and did this; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses,

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a woman from the Hebrews to nurse the boy for you?”

After Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the Lord for help concerning the frogs that He had brought against Pharaoh.

During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn’t a house without someone dead.

So the overseers and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am not giving you straw.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard: he refuses to let the people go.

Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand.

They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.

But Moses said in the Lord’s presence: “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am such a poor speaker?”

Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s slave drivers had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why haven’t you finished making your prescribed number of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”

Go get straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

The rings should be next to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table.

The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad the Egyptians could not drink water from it. There was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?

The overseers insisted, “Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

So they set it aside until morning as Moses commanded, and it didn’t smell or have any maggots in it.

On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts apiece, and all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.

They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

Here is how you must eat it: you must be dressed for travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in a hurry; it is the Lord’s Passover.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living.”

Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

You must not go up to My altar on steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.

Otherwise, I am going to send all My plagues against you, your officials, and your people. Then you will know there is no one like Me in all the earth.

This is what Yahweh says: Here is how you will know that I am Yahweh. Watch. I will strike the water in the Nile with the staff in my hand, and it will turn to blood.

So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” So the people bowed down and worshiped.

You will speak with him and tell him what to say. I will help both you and him to speak and will teach you both what to do.

“This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year.

Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.”

Miriam sang to them:

Sing to the Lord,
for He is highly exalted;
He has thrown the horse
and its rider into the sea.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

The Lord instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he won’t let the people go.

They covered the surface of the whole land so that the land was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on the trees or the plants in the field throughout the land of Egypt.

When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.

I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles that I will perform in it. After that, he will let you go.

And take this staff in your hand that you will perform the signs with.”

Do not let any of it remain until morning; you must burn up any part of it that does remain before morning.

The Lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?”

“A staff,” he replied.

The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them commands concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

five crossbars for the planks on the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the planks of the back side of the tabernacle on the west.

The Lord did as Moses had said: the frogs in the houses, courtyards, and fields died.

“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you won’t find any in the field.

“Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go from his land.”

“May the Lord take note of you and judge,” they said to them, “because you have made us reek in front of Pharaoh and his officials—putting a sword in their hand to kill us!”

I told you: Let My son go so that he may worship Me, but you refused to let him go. Now I will kill your firstborn son!”

Then the Lord changed the wind to a strong west wind, and it carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.

“You must not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked to be a malicious witness.

They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person will eat.

The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I receive glory through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”

So Moses went back to the Lord and asked, “Lord, why have You caused trouble for this people? And why did You ever send me?

He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and you will serve as God to him.

You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats.

You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, and it will become gnats throughout the land of Egypt.”

“However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, unless he is forced by a strong hand.

No woman will miscarry or be childless in your land. I will give you the full number of your days.

But they didn’t listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and smelled. Therefore Moses was angry with them.

The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your neighbor?”

So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took God’s staff in his hand.

Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table can be carried by them.

But Pharaoh responded, “Who is Yahweh that I should obey Him by letting Israel go? I do not know anything about Yahweh, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”

Each woman will ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry, and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”

So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.

But the Lord replied to Moses, “Now you are going to see what I will do to Pharaoh: he will let them go because of My strong hand; he will drive them out of his land because of My strong hand.”

So Moses thought: I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up?

However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you My power and to make My name known in all the earth.

So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son’s foreskin, and threw it at Moses’ feet. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

The sons of Simeon:
Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin,
Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.
These are the clans of Simeon.

These are the names of the sons of Levi
according to their genealogy:
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Levi lived 137 years.

But when Pharaoh saw there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them.

They piled them in countless heaps, and there was a terrible odor in the land.

The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night never left its place in front of the people.

When they returned to their father Reuel he asked, “Why have you come back so quickly today?”

Ever since I went in to Pharaoh to speak in Your name he has caused trouble for this people, and You haven’t delivered Your people at all.”

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“When a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they must sell the live ox and divide its proceeds; they must also divide the dead animal.

No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault.”

“Who made you a leader and judge over us?” the man replied. “Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”

Then Moses became afraid and thought: What I did is certainly known.

Now in Midian the Lord told Moses, “Return to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead.”

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom, for he said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Moses told Aaron, “Take a container and put two quarts of manna in it. Then place it before the Lord to be preserved throughout your generations.”

I will send the hornet in front of you, and it will drive the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites away from you.

They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter—that is why it was named Marah.

Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites.

One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.

If it gores a son or a daughter, he is to be dealt with according to this same law.

Go to Pharaoh in the morning. When you see him walking out to the water, stand ready to meet him by the bank of the Nile. Take in your hand the staff that turned into a snake.

If the ox gores a male or female slave, he must give 30 shekels of silver to the slave’s master, and the ox must be stoned.

If instead a ransom is demanded of him, he can pay a redemption price for his life in the full amount demanded from him.

The sons of Kohath:
Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
Kohath lived 133 years.

Aaron repeated everything the Lord had said to Moses and performed the signs before the people.

These are the heads of their fathers’ families:

The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel:
Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.
These are the clans of Reuben.

It came between the Egyptian and Israelite forces. The cloud was there in the darkness, yet it lit up the night. So neither group came near the other all night long.

The Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you out of here.

“I will cause the people ahead of you to feel terror and throw into confusion all the nations you come to. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in retreat.

Anyone who blends something like it or puts some of it on an unauthorized person must be cut off from his people.”

Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Two quarts of it are to be preserved throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

By now I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.

Now the Lord had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake. Moses ran from it,

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and tell him: This is what Yahweh says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

So the people rested on the seventh day.

Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed,
and she bore him Aaron and Moses.
Amram lived 137 years.

But he said, “You are slackers. Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

Tell him: Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness, but so far you have not listened.

Be careful to make them according to the pattern you have been shown on the mountain.

Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind because we will take some of them to worship Yahweh our God. We will not know what we will use to worship Yahweh until we get there.”

Moses responded, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings to prepare for Yahweh our God.

but the Lord told him, “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail.” So he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand.

Now get to work. No straw will be given to you, but you must produce the same quantity of bricks.”

As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony to be preserved.

Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put My hand on Egypt and bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.

and so that you may tell your son and grandson how severely I dealt with the Egyptians and performed miraculous signs among them, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”

So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

So Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,

The magicians tried to produce gnats using their occult practices, but they could not. The gnats remained on man and beast.

It must not be used for ordinary anointing on a person’s body, and you must not make anything like it using its formula. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from it.”

The Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh when you see him going out to the water. Tell him: This is what Yahweh says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

“As you have said,” Moses replied, “I will never see your face again.”

Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock.

Pharaoh responded, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but don’t go very far. Make an appeal for me.”

The only place it didn’t hail was in the land of Goshen where the Israelites were.

Pharaoh said to him, “Leave me! Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die.”

Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over fire—its head as well as its legs and inner organs.

“This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox’s owner is innocent.

The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You cannot reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

The Lord replied to Moses: “I will erase whoever has sinned against Me from My book.

And they did this. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and when he struck the dust of the earth, gnats were on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats throughout the land of Egypt.

The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your work!”

They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

So the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs—and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”

and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock.

But against all the Israelites, whether man or beast, not even a dog will snarl, so that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

“So where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner.”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him: This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and his officials, he raised the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile was turned to blood.

But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people are living; no flies will be there. This way you will know that I, Yahweh, am in the land.

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may worship Me.

Aaron married Elisheba,
daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon.
She bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

But if you refuse to let My people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

But if you refuse to let them go, then I will plague all your territory with frogs.

The sons of Merari:
Mahli and Mushi.
These are the clans of the Levites
according to their genealogy.

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

They will fill your houses, all your officials’ houses, and the houses of all the Egyptians—something your fathers and ancestors never saw since the time they occupied the land until today.” Then he turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.

The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

“You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, “God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place.”

God saw the Israelites, and He took notice.

And the Lord did this. Thick swarms of flies went into Pharaoh’s palace and his officials’ houses. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.

The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. And the man Moses was highly regarded in the land of Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and the people.

Now announce to the people that both men and women should ask their neighbors for silver and gold jewelry.”

“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.

I will make a distinction between My people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.”

Moses replied, “We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds because we must hold Yahweh’s festival.”

the owner of the pit must give compensation; he must pay money to its owner, but the dead animal will become his.

Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.

“These are the ordinances that you must set before them:

Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long must this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they may worship Yahweh their God. Don’t you realize yet that Egypt is devastated?”

The sons of Izhar:
Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.

Then they answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God, or else He may strike us with plague or sword.”

Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and about all the signs He had commanded him to do.

So He let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.

You are still acting arrogantly against My people by not letting them go.

The sons of Korah:
Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph.
These are the clans of the Korahites.

They will cover the surface of the land so that no one will be able to see the land. They will eat the remainder left to you that escaped the hail; they will eat every tree you have growing in the fields.

Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are so numerous, and you would stop them from working.”

If there is an injury, then you must give life for life,

But if you will not let My people go, then I will send swarms of flies against you, your officials, your people, and your houses. The Egyptians’ houses will swarm with flies, and so will the land where they live.

the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and bases, the screen for the gate of the courtyard, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting;

I will not drive them out ahead of you in a single year; otherwise, the land would become desolate, and wild animals would multiply against you.

The sons of Uzziel:
Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.

“You must not blaspheme God or curse a leader among your people.

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before, or ever will be again.

I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as foreigners.

Those among Pharaoh’s officials who feared the word of the Lord made their servants and livestock flee to shelters,

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go sacrifice to your God within the country.”

The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out My hand against Egypt, and bring out the Israelites from among them.”

Moses responded to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear Him and will not sin.”

“You are to make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue yarn.

Therefore give orders to bring your livestock and all that you have in the field into shelters. Every person and animal that is in the field and not brought inside will die when the hail falls on them.”

Moses was 80 years old and Aaron 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Aaron’s son Eleazar married
one of the daughters of Putiel
and she bore him Phinehas.
These are the heads of the Levite families by their clans.

But He answered, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”

All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Leave, you and all the people who follow you. After that, I will leave.’” And he left Pharaoh’s presence in fierce anger.

burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.

“If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him before sunset.

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road to the land of the Philistines, even though it was nearby; for God said, “The people will change their minds and return to Egypt if they face war.”

But the magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their occult practices. So Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Ask Yahweh to remove the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let the people go and they can sacrifice to Yahweh.”

Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered My covenant.

The Nile will swarm with frogs; they will come up and go into your palace, into your bedroom and on your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

He said to them, “May Yahweh be with you if I ever let you and your families go! Look out—you are planning evil.

The Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way during the day and in a pillar of fire to give them light at night, so that they could travel day or night.

The entire Israelite community left the Wilderness of Sin, moving from one place to the next according to the Lord’s command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

On the day the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

Moses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

So Moses chose able men from all Israel and made them leaders over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

“You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your vats. Give Me the firstborn of your sons.

He caused their chariot wheels to swerve and made them drive with difficulty. “Let’s get away from Israel,” the Egyptians said, “because Yahweh is fighting for them against Egypt!”