“You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”

From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!”

Moses saw that the people were running wild, for Aaron had let them get completely out of control, causing derision from their enemies.

It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.”

So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.

When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the Lord caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.

‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.

“You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.

“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

“You shall not murder.

and you must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.

“If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;

“You are to command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps will burn regularly.

The Lord spoke to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.’”

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.