You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

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.”

So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, with their kneading troughs bound up in their clothing on their shoulders.

But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.

So they gathered it each morning, each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

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.

No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the Lord.

and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.

But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

You are to overlay it with pure gold – both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.

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 overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it.

The rings are to be close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table.