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

On the first day there will be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kind on them, only what every person will eat – that alone may be prepared for you.

but if the cloud was not lifted up, then they would not journey further until the day it was lifted up.

You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

You are to tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers per person; and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses.

No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

And the Lord did this on the next day; all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but of the Israelites’ livestock not one died.

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.

We must go on a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us.”

The priest who succeeds him from his sons, when he first comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, is to wear them for seven days.

For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.

When he went out the next day, there were two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who was in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your fellow Hebrew?”

Bread made without yeast must be eaten for seven days; no bread made with yeast shall be seen among you, and you must have no yeast among you within any of your borders.

Then Moses led Israel to journey away from the Red Sea. They went out to the Desert of Shur, walked for three days into the desert, and found no water.

So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

So Moses extended his staff over the land of Egypt, and then the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought up the locusts!

For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is made with yeast – that person will be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a foreigner or one born in the land.

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.