“You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

And the Lord sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf – the one Aaron made.

“These are the decisions that you will set before them:

Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him and all the signs that he had commanded him.

On the sixth day they will prepare what they bring in, and it will be twice as much as they gather every other day.”

Jethro rejoiced because of all the good that the Lord had done for Israel, whom he had delivered from the hand of Egypt.

Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians’ control!

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

You are to put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you.

Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.

You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan that you were shown on the mountain.

Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, will be cut off from his people.”

Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”

He said, “See, I am going to make a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.

Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.

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

So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”

You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”