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.’

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.

You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so they must make it.

“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.

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.

But now, if you will forgive their sin…, but if not, wipe me out from your book that you have written.”

The Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me – that person I will wipe out of my book.

Every skilled person among you is to come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled spun goats’ hair.

This is what Moses did, according to all the Lord had commanded him – so he did.