“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.

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

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

You are to bring his sons and clothe them with tunics

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.

The Egyptians piled them in countless heaps, and the land stank.

You are to make poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold,

You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

When Moses finished speaking with them, he would put a veil on his face.

He made poles of acacia wood, overlaid them with gold,

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Pharaoh was thinking, “The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”

You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

And Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.

A mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks and herds – a very large number of cattle.

You are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid.

You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.