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

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow will be a feast to the Lord.”

The Lord said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”

No straw is given to your servants, but we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”

So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.

Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and our cattle we will go, because we are to hold a pilgrim feast for the Lord.”

Pharaoh got up in the night, along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house in which there was not someone dead.

He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the Lord made for them a binding ordinance, and there he tested them.

If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.

Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your way, that I may know you, that I may continue to find favor in your sight. And see that this nation is your people.”

So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

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

You must say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is my son, my firstborn,

And Pharaoh turned and went into his house. He did not pay any attention to this.

I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.”’”

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”

But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”