So when they came home<n id="1" /> to their father Reuel,<n id="2" /> he asked, &#8220;Why have you come home so early<n id="3" /> today?&#8221;

&#8220;Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release<n id="1" /> the Israelites from his land.&#8221;

He said<n id="1" /> to Moses, &#8220;I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.&#8221;

If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.<n id="1" />p>

If you do take<n id="1" /> the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,<n id="2" />

<v id="(7:26)" /><n id="1" /> Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go to Pharaoh and tell him, &#8216;Thus says the <sc>Lordsc>: &#8220;Release my people in order that they may serve me!

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go to Pharaoh and tell him, &#8216;Thus says the <sc>Lord,sc> the God of the Hebrews, &#8220;Release my people that they may serve me!

When they have a dispute,<n id="1" /> it comes to me and I decide<n id="2" /> between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Be careful not to make<n id="1" /> a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare<n id="2" /> among you.

<p class="bodytext">Moses said<n id="1" /> to God, &#8220;If<n id="2" /> I go to the Israelites and tell them, &#8216;The God of your fathers has sent me to you,&#8217; and they ask me, &#8216;What is his name?&#8217;<n id="3" /> &#8211; what should I say<n id="4" /> to them?&#8221;p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said<n id="2" /> to Moses, &#8220;Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display<n id="3" /> these signs of mine before him,<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea,p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> brought back the waters of the sea on them,p> <p class="poetry">but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.&#8221;p>

When<n id="1" /> the hands of Moses became heavy,<n id="2" /> they took a stone and put it under him, and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other,<n id="3" /> and so his hands were steady<n id="4" /> until the sun went down.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;I am going to come<n id="1" /> to you in a dense cloud,<n id="2" /> so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.&#8221;<n id="3" /> And Moses told the words of the people to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Moses said to the people, &#8220;Do not fear, for God has come to test you,<n id="1" /> that the fear of him<n id="2" /> may be before you so that you do not<n id="3" /> sin.&#8221;