But he added, “You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”

He made a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red and over that a covering of fine leather.

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

He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

But when the cloud was lifted up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on all their journeys;

For the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the Lord will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

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.

They were the men who were speaking to Pharaoh king of Egypt, in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. It was the same Moses and Aaron.

Then the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord, when I extend my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.

Instruct the people that each man and each woman is to request from his or her neighbor items of silver and gold.”

“Tell the Israelites that they must turn and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you are to camp by the sea before Baal Zephon opposite it.

You will surely wear out, both you and these people who are with you, for this is too heavy a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.

But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

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

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.

“You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.

“I will send my terror before you, and I will destroy all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.