The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked – and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!

Every day you are to prepare a bull for a purification offering for atonement. You are to purge the altar by making atonement for it, and you are to anoint it to set it apart as holy.

You are to overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it.

The man replied, “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking, “Surely what I did has become known.”

Everyone who crosses over to those who are numbered is to pay this: a half shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel weighs twenty gerahs). The half shekel is to be an offering to the Lord.

When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”

“You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

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

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

You must not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”

Every firstling of a donkey you must redeem with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, then you must break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.

In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.)

He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

“Take choice spices: twelve and a half pounds of free-flowing myrrh, half that – about six and a quarter pounds – of sweet-smelling cinnamon, six and a quarter pounds of sweet-smelling cane,

If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.

“You are also to make a large bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. You are to put it between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it,

“You are to make a table of acacia wood; its length is to be three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches.

“You are to make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you are to make eleven curtains.

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