Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camping by the mountain of God.

You are to make its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; you are to make them of pure gold.

But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up outside the camp. It is the purification offering.

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.

Be prepared in the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and station yourself for me there on the top of the mountain.

He made an atonement lid of pure gold; its length was three feet nine inches, and its width was two feet three inches.

He overlaid it with pure gold – its top, its four walls, and its horns – and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

You can present them to the Lord as an offering of first fruit, but they must not go up to the altar for a soothing aroma.

Then Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded you to do so that the glory of the Lord may appear to you.”

This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land,

“When a body has a burn on its skin and the raw area of the burn becomes a reddish white or white bright spot,

“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.

they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

“How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.

Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”

If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

And you may eat it in any place, you and your household, because it is your wages for your service in the tent of meeting.

The well which the princes dug, which the leaders of the people opened with their scepters and their staffs.” And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;