The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see<n id="1" /> the blood I will pass over you,<n id="2" /> and this plague<n id="3" /> will not fall on you to destroy you<n id="4" /> when I attack<n id="5" /> the land of Egypt.<n id="6" />p>

He said<n id="1" /> to his daughters, &#8220;So where is he?<n id="2" /> Why in the world<n id="3" /> did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat<n id="4" /> a meal<n id="5" /> with us.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them, &#8220;Go and select<n id="1" /> for yourselves a lamb or young goat<n id="2" /> for your families, and kill the Passover animals.<n id="3" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now this is what<n id="2" /> you are to do for them to consecrate them so that they may minister as my priests. Take a young<n id="3" /> bull and two rams without blemish;<n id="4" />

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">In the future,<n id="2" /> when your son asks you<n id="3" /> &#8216;What is this?&#8217;<n id="4" /> you are to tell him, &#8216;With a mighty hand<n id="5" /> the <sc>Lordsc> brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery.<n id="6" />

You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain.<n id="1" /> The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You are to make a breastpiece for use in making decisions,<n id="1" /> the work of an artistic designer; you are to make it in the same fashion as the ephod; you are to make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

Come, let&#8217;s deal wisely<n id="1" /> with them. Otherwise<n id="2" /> they will continue to multiply,<n id="3" /> and if<n id="4" /> a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with<n id="5" /> our enemies and fight against us and leave<n id="6" /> the country.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You shall not make for yourself a carved image<n id="1" /> or any likeness<n id="2" /> of anything<n id="3" /> that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.<n id="4" />

<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" />

<p class="bodytext">Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw<n id="1" /> water<n id="2" /> and fill<n id="3" /> the troughs in order to water their father&#8217;s flock.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said<n id="1" /> to Aaron, &#8220;Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God<n id="2" /> and greeted him with a kiss.<n id="3" />

then you must give over<n id="1" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> the first offspring of every womb.<n id="2" /> Every firstling<n id="3" /> of a beast that you have<n id="4" /> &#8211; the males will be the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s.<n id="5" />

You will surely wear out,<n id="1" /> both you and these people who are with you, for this is too<n id="2" /> heavy a burden<n id="3" /> for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.

Now listen to me,<n id="1" /> I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God,<n id="2" /> and you bring<n id="3" /> their disputes<n id="4" /> to God;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When a foreigner lives<n id="1" /> with you and wants to observe the Passover to the <sc>Lordsc>, all his males must be circumcised,<n id="2" /> and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land<n id="3" /> &#8211; but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

Our livestock must<n id="1" /> also go with us! Not a hoof is to be left behind! For we must take<n id="2" /> these animals<n id="3" /> to serve the <sc>Lordsc> our God. Until we arrive there, we do not know what we must use to serve the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<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.

The <sc>Lordsc> did so; a<n id="1" /> thick<n id="2" /> swarm of flies came into<n id="3" /> Pharaoh&#8217;s house and into the houses<n id="4" /> of his servants, and throughout the whole land of Egypt the land was ruined<n id="5" /> because of the swarms of flies.p>

Take a branch of hyssop,<n id="1" /> dip it in the blood that is in the basin,<n id="2" /> and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out<n id="3" /> the door of his house until morning.