Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.

But they did not listen to Moses; some kept part of it until morning, and it was full of worms and began to stink, and Moses was angry with them.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camping by the mountain of God.

On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

And when Moses went out to the tent, all the people would get up and stand at the entrance to their tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.

And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord would speak with Moses.

Moses inspected all the work – and they had done it just as the Lord had commanded – they had done it exactly – and Moses blessed them.

God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.

When the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord,

So the people murmured against Moses, saying, “What can we drink?”

Moses built an altar, and he called it “The Lord is my Banner,”

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.

Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up,

Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

When Moses finished speaking with them, he would put a veil on his face.

So the whole community of the Israelites went out from the presence of Moses.