The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

and the other Eliezer (for Moses had said, “The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the Lord made for them a binding ordinance, and there he tested them.

Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

“Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods – do not let them be heard on your lips.