The Lord said, “Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock.

But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.

“You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook its meat in a holy place.

God said, “Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

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

I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

‘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.