Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen.”

For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning.

“The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the Lord your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

There was an opening in the center of the robe, like the opening of a collar, with an edge all around the opening so that it could not be torn.

but if the cloud was not lifted up, then they would not journey further until the day it was lifted up.

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not release Israel!”

The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.

Our livestock must also go with us! Not a hoof is to be left behind! For we must take these animals to serve the Lord our God. Until we arrive there, we do not know what we must use to serve the Lord.”

They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast – because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either.

No hand will touch him – but he will surely be stoned or shot through, whether a beast or a human being; he must not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast they may go up on the mountain.”

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women – for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!”

So Moses thought, “I will turn aside to see this amazing sight. Why does the bush not burn up?”

“I will grant this people favor with the Egyptians, so that when you depart you will not leave empty-handed.

“If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.

“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.

The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”

From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!”

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name ‘the Lord’ I was not known to them.