So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”

Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life!

So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had. When he came to Beer Sheba he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” His father said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.”

Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, “God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

God said to Moses, “I am that I am.” And he said, “You must say this to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.

So the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

He said, “Tomorrow.” And Moses said, “It will be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God. Exactly who is going with you?”

So now, forgive my sin this time only, and pray to the Lord your God that he would only take this death away from me.”

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camping by the mountain of God.

If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

“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.

“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.

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

and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.

So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.