“Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me.

Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.

“Set apart to me every firstborn male – the first offspring of every womb among the Israelites, whether human or animal; it is mine.”

And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

You are to tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

“You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests.

And you are to tell the Israelites: ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.

So now, leave me alone so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them, and I will make from you a great nation.”

So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, break it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”

The Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me – that person I will wipe out of my book.

“Every firstborn of the womb belongs to me, even every firstborn of your cattle that is a male, whether ox or sheep.

Then you are to clothe Aaron with the holy garments and anoint him and sanctify him so that he may minister as my priest.

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

Moses answered again, “And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you’?”

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast to me in the desert.’”

I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.

and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”