You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”

Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.”’”

Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.

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

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good!

“I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.’

But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.

Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

You are to make its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; you are to make them of pure gold.

“Thus you are to do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you are to consecrate them for seven days.

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

Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest will be cut off from his people.’”

And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the Lord.

the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the Holy Place. They will make all these things just as I have commanded you.”

So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.