So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

Any children that you father after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.

After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the Desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the Lord by name.

You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

You are to put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it.

You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!

You must not swear falsely in my name, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

You must not profane my holy name, and I will be sanctified in the midst of the Israelites. I am the Lord who sanctifies you,

So he called the name of that place Taberah because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.

Why have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,

They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

As for me, the Lord was also angry with me on your account. He said, “You also will not be able to go there.

and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

Then you must build an altar there to the Lord your God, an altar of stones – do not use an iron tool on them.