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

The Lord set an appointed time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.”

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

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

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

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold filigree settings.

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

The first lamb you are to prepare in the morning, and the second lamb you are to prepare around sundown.

They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert.

When Israel saw the great power that the Lord had exercised over the Egyptians, they feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,

“You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

“You are to take the ram of the consecration and cook its meat in a holy place.

So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month, in the second year.

Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

So Moses cut out two tablets of stone like the first; early in the morning he went up to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Position yourself to meet him by the edge of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.

This is how you are to eat it – dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.