and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependants.

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;

and the sons of Aaron, the priest, must put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

Every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs to all the sons of Aaron, each one alike.

“Tell the Israelites, ‘You must not eat any fat of an ox, sheep, or goat.

“He will then make one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, which are within his means,

He must also take two male goats from the congregation of the Israelites for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.