Fish in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile.”’”

We must go on a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us.”

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

and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.”

Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

Just as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony for safekeeping.

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.