Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the desert.

In the third month after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, on the very day, they came to the Desert of Sinai.

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

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

Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.

“You are to take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,

“Now this is what you are to prepare on the altar every day continually: two lambs a year old.

And you are to tell the Israelites: ‘This is to be my sacred anointing oil throughout your generations.

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

But when the cloud was lifted up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on all their journeys;

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

“And you, bring near to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him from among the Israelites, so that they may minister as my priests – Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

It is to belong to Aaron and to his sons from the Israelites, by a perpetual ordinance, for it is a contribution. It is to be a contribution from the Israelites from their peace offerings, their contribution to the Lord.

And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

and I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”

and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.