You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me – this whole nation is guilty.

“You are to clothe them – your brother Aaron and his sons with him – and anoint them and ordain them and set them apart as holy, so that they may minister as my priests.

The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be their attendant, and he served them. They spent some time in custody.

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

You are my brothers – my very own flesh and blood! Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?’

Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

He imprisoned them all for three days.

On this day, in the month of Abib, you are going out.

You are to bring his sons and clothe them with tunics

“You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the Lord.

But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,

So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they started cutting down trees.

May you be blessed by the Lord, the creator of heaven and earth!

“You Ethiopians will also die by my sword!”

No! Go, you men only, and serve the Lord, for that is what you want.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence.

They are to eat those things by which atonement was made to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else may eat them, for they are holy.

“After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.

So Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from every tribe, with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who was in charge of the holy articles and the signal trumpets.

Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess.

He told them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!