The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, “Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

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

Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

We must go on a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us.”

and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.”

Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.

Whenever Moses would raise his hands, then Israel prevailed, but whenever he would rest his hands, then Amalek prevailed.

You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so they must make it.

And he set the bread in order on it before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Then he set up the lamps before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron – just as the Lord had predicted.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

The magicians said to Pharaoh, “It is the finger of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had predicted to Moses.

So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the Lord had predicted through Moses.

He said to them, “The Lord will need to be with you if I release you and your dependents! Watch out! Trouble is right in front of you!

When you enter the land that the Lord will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony.