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

and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.

They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to 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.

And take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and sanctify it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy.

He made the middle bar to reach from end to end in the center of the frames.

and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark.

It happened at midnight – the Lord attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

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!”

The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted, and so they plundered Egypt.

In the third month after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, on the very day, they came to the Desert of Sinai.

You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl – the first row;

So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.

And he has put it in his heart to teach, he and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

Moses said, “You will know this when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the Lord has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.”

He said, “See, I am going to make a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.

I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.

“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.