Pharaoh got up<n id="1" /> in the night,<n id="2" /> along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house<n id="3" /> in which there was not someone dead.

They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast &#8211; because they were thrust out<n id="1" /> of Egypt and were not able to delay, they<n id="2" /> could not prepare<n id="3" /> food for themselves either.p>

<p class="bodytext">Moses said to the people, &#8220;Remember<n id="1" /> this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the place where you were enslaved,<n id="2" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> brought you out of there<n id="3" /> with a mighty hand &#8211; and no bread made with yeast may be eaten.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> brings you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey,<n id="2" /> then you will keep<n id="3" /> this ceremony<n id="4" /> in this month.

Isn&#8217;t this what we told you<n id="1" /> in Egypt, &#8216;Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians,<n id="2" /> because it is better for us to serve<n id="3" /> the Egyptians than to die in the desert!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

He said, &#8220;If you will diligently obey<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God, and do what is right<n id="2" /> in his sight, and pay attention<n id="3" /> to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all<n id="4" /> the diseases<n id="5" /> that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the <sc>Lord,sc> am your healer.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="2" /> they journeyed from Elim, the entire company<n id="3" /> of Israelites came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus<n id="4" /> from the land of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">Moses said, &#8220;You will know this<n id="1" /> when the <sc>Lordsc> gives you<n id="2" /> meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the <sc>Lordsc> has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we?<n id="3" /> Your murmurings are not against us,<n id="4" /> but against the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

When<n id="1" /> the Israelites saw it, they said to one another,<n id="2" /> &#8220;What is it?&#8221; because they did not know what it was.<n id="3" /> Moses said to them, &#8220;It is the bread<n id="4" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> has given you for food.<n id="5" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go over before the people;<n id="1" /> take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses&#8217; father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> had brought Israel out of Egypt.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">On<n id="1" /> the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense<n id="2" /> cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud<n id="3" /> horn;<n id="4" /> all the people who were in the camp trembled.

For in six days the <sc>Lordsc> made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the <sc>Lordsc> blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8216;You must make for me an altar made of earth,<n id="1" /> and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings,<n id="2" /> your sheep and your cattle. In every place<n id="3" /> where I cause my name to be honored<n id="4" /> I will come to you and I will bless you.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely,<n id="1" /> but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman&#8217;s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.<n id="2" />

You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days<n id="1" /> you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time<n id="2" /> you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before<n id="3" /> me empty-handed.p>

<p class="bodytext">Moses came<n id="1" /> and told the people all the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s words<n id="2" /> and all the decisions. All the people answered together,<n id="3" /> &#8220;We are willing to do<n id="4" /> all the words that the <sc>Lordsc> has said,&#8221;

So Moses took the blood and splashed it on<n id="1" /> the people and said, &#8220;This is the blood of the covenant<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> has made with you in accordance with all these words.&#8221;p>

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Come up to me to the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets<n id="2" /> with<n id="3" /> the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.&#8221;<n id="4" />

He told the elders, &#8220;Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Here are<n id="1" /> Aaron and Hur with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute<n id="2" /> can approach<n id="3" /> them.&#8221;p>