But Moses said, “Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the Lord our God?

Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder, Moses was speaking and God was answering him with a voice.

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

and the other Eliezer (for Moses had said, “The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

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

and I have filled him with the Spirit of God in skill, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship,

He has filled him with the Spirit of God – with skill, with understanding, with knowledge, and in all kinds of work,

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘the Lord’ I was not known to them.

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.”

They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.

God said to Moses, “I am that I am.” And he said, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.

So the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

He said, “Tomorrow.” And Moses said, “It will be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God. Exactly who is going with you?”

So now, forgive my sin this time only, and pray to the Lord your God that he would only take this death away from me.”

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.

If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”