You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot – like meat in a kettle.

Then the Lord said, “Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.

Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.

Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!

Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord killed him too.

but the chief baker he impaled, just as Joseph had predicted.

The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.

The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”

So Pharaoh said, “Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do.”

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.