“You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests.

So all the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.

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

Every skilled person among you is to come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled spun goats’ hair.

It was square – they made the breastpiece doubled, nine inches long and nine inches wide when doubled.

They will judge the people under normal circumstances, and every difficult case they will bring to you, but every small case they themselves will judge, so that you may make it easier for yourself, and they will bear the burden with you.

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.”

and said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

and I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”

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!”

So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God. Exactly who is going with you?”

So now, forgive my sin this time only, and pray to the Lord your God that he would only take this death away from me.”

This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord – you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

You will surely wear out, both you and these people who are with you, for this is too heavy a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.

Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;

They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.”

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him.