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

So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”

Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.

That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:

When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,

“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”

Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

But if you refuse to release them, then I am going to plague all your territory with frogs.

The magicians did the same with their secret arts and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt too.

But if you refuse to release my people, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, with their kneading troughs bound up in their clothing on their shoulders.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.