and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.

But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land.

When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”

You are to tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”),

You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

“Thus you are to do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you are to consecrate them for seven days.

So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving you straw.

“Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods – do not let them be heard on your lips.

“I will grant this people favor with the Egyptians, so that when you depart you will not leave empty-handed.

From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!”

You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.

He said to them, “The Lord will need to be with you if I release you and your dependents! Watch out! Trouble is right in front of you!

Keep your distance from a false charge – do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.

You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.

But Moses replied to the Lord, “If the Israelites did not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with difficulty?”

He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

The Lord said to Moses: “Thus you will tell the Israelites: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.

The Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”