So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses – they did it exactly so.

Then you are to anoint the altar for the burnt offering with all its utensils; you are to sanctify the altar, and it will be the most holy altar.

In the tent of meeting outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for generations to come.

Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.”

The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked – and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!

You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; you are to have them set in gold filigree settings.

Every day you are to prepare a bull for a purification offering for atonement. You are to purge the altar by making atonement for it, and you are to anoint it to set it apart as holy.

“When you take a census of the Israelites according to their number, then each man is to pay a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.

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

So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

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

Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.

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

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

Let the priests also, who approach the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break through against them.”

“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.