<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">In those days,<n id="2" /> when<n id="3" /> Moses had grown up, he went out to his people<n id="4" /> and observed<n id="5" /> their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking<n id="6" /> a Hebrew man, one of his own people.<n id="7" />

The angel of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> appeared<n id="2" /> to him in<n id="3" /> a flame of fire from within a bush.<n id="4" /> He looked<n id="5" /> &#8211; and<n id="6" /> the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!<n id="7" />

God saw<n id="1" /> the Israelites, and God understood&#8230;.<n id="2" />p>

He looked this way and that<n id="1" /> and saw that no one was there,<n id="2" /> and then he attacked<n id="3" /> the Egyptian and concealed the body<n id="4" /> in the sand.

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> Aaron saw this,<n id="2" /> he built an altar before it,<n id="3" /> and Aaron made a proclamation<n id="4" /> and said, &#8220;Tomorrow will be a feast<n id="5" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Moses saw that the people were running wild,<n id="1" /> for Aaron had let them get completely out of control, causing derision from their enemies.<n id="2" />

When the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> saw that<n id="2" /> he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said, &#8220;Moses, Moses!&#8221;<n id="3" /> And Moses<n id="4" /> said, &#8220;Here I am.&#8221;

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief,<n id="1" /> he hardened<n id="2" /> his heart and did not listen to them, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had predicted.<n id="3" />p>

When Pharaoh saw<n id="1" /> that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again:<n id="2" /> both he and his servants hardened<n id="3" /> their hearts.

So the <sc>Lordsc> saved<n id="1" /> Israel on that day from the power<n id="2" /> of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead<n id="3" /> on the shore of the sea.

When Israel saw<n id="1" /> the great power<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> had exercised<n id="3" /> over the Egyptians, they<n id="4" /> feared the <sc>Lordsc>, and they believed in<n id="5" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and in his servant Moses.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="bodytext">All the people were seeing<n id="1" /> the thundering and the lightning, and heard<n id="2" /> the sound of the horn, and saw<n id="3" /> the mountain smoking &#8211; and when<n id="4" /> the people saw it they trembled with fear<n id="5" /> and kept their distance.<n id="6" />

When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone;<n id="1" /> and they were afraid to approach him.

Moses inspected<n id="1" /> all the work &#8211; and<n id="2" /> they had done it just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded &#8211; they had done it exactly &#8211; and Moses blessed them.<n id="3" />p>

When Moses&#8217; father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, &#8220;What is this<n id="1" /> that you are doing for the people?<n id="2" /> Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry.<n id="1" /> He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.<n id="2" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When the people saw that Moses delayed<n id="2" /> in coming down<n id="3" /> from the mountain, they<n id="4" /> gathered around Aaron and said to him, &#8220;Get up,<n id="5" /> make us gods<n id="6" /> that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses,<n id="7" /> the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what<n id="8" /> has become of him!&#8221;p>