When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”

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

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Yet Pharaoh’s heart became 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 release the Israelites.

Moses said, “As you wish! I will not see your face again.”

The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted, and so they plundered Egypt.

He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.

for he said, “For a hand was lifted up to the throne of the Lord – that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’

If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, and he will not have to pay for what was torn.

and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

“You are to make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather.

they must wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants throughout their generations.”

the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the Holy Place. They will make all these things just as I have commanded you.”

So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

“The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”