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

The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you treating your servants this way?

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.

The Lord did as Moses asked – the frogs died out of the houses, the villages, and the fields.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.

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

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

Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you? – majestic in holiness, fearful in praises, working wonders?

Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

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

They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.

Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

You must make holy garments for your brother Aaron, for glory and for beauty.

“For Aaron’s sons you are to make tunics, sashes, and headbands for glory and for beauty.

and you are to kill the ram and take its blood and splash it all around on the altar.

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.