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

“You are to take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head,

Then you are to cut the ram into pieces and wash the entrails and its legs and put them on its pieces and on its head

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

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

The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be mounted for the ephod and the breastpiece,

He joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves.

He made the sacred anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

“You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

Moses and Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet from it.

Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

The hail struck everything in the open fields, both people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.

He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”

But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said, “Why in the world did you bring us up out of Egypt – to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.

He also put the altar for the burnt offering by the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.