The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”

Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him.

God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.

When the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

Seven full days passed after the Lord struck the Nile.

So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord,

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.

For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord.

Moses built an altar, and he called it “The Lord is my Banner,”

“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone must be utterly destroyed.

You are to kill the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting

Then the Lord relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.

The Lord said, “Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock.

Moses said, “You will know this when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the Lord has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.”

You must say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is my son, my firstborn,

But Pharaoh replied, “You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

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

And Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.