Then they came to Marah,<n id="1" /> but they were not able to drink<n id="2" /> the waters of Marah, because<n id="3" /> they were bitter.<n id="4" /> (That is<n id="5" /> why its name was<n id="6" /> Marah.)p>

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.p>

But in the seventh year<n id="1" /> you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field<n id="2" /> may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.

with two projections<n id="1" /> per frame parallel one to another.<n id="2" /> You are to make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

At the two corners<n id="1" /> they must be doubled at the lower end and finished together at the top in one ring. So it will be for both.

After this all the Israelites approached, and he commanded them all that the <sc>Lordsc> had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.

He made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in the first set; he did the same along the edge of the end curtain in the second set.

with<n id="1" /> two projections per frame parallel one to another.<n id="2" /> He made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.

At the two corners<n id="1" /> they were doubled at the lower end and<n id="2" /> finished together at the top in one ring. So he did for both.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">So all the work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did according to all that the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses &#8211; they did it exactly so.

<p class="bodytext">The Israelites did all the work according to all that the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses.

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>

But you must require<n id="1" /> of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before.<n id="2" /> Do not reduce it, for they are slackers.<n id="3" /> That is why they are crying, &#8216;Let us go sacrifice to our God.&#8217;

When<n id="1" /> Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded them &#8211; Aaron threw<n id="2" /> down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.<n id="3" />

Moses and Aaron did so,<n id="1" /> just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded. Moses raised<n id="2" /> the staff<n id="3" /> and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes<n id="4" /> of Pharaoh and his servants,<n id="5" /> and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.<n id="6" />

They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people<n id="1" /> and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

But Moses said, &#8220;That would not be the right thing to do,<n id="1" /> for the sacrifices we make<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> our God would be an abomination<n id="3" /> to the Egyptians.<n id="4" /> If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes,<n id="5" /> will they not stone us?<n id="6" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will release you from this place. When he releases you,<n id="2" /> he will drive you out completely<n id="3" /> from this place.

All these your servants will come down to me and bow down<n id="1" /> to me, saying, &#8216;Go, you and all the people who follow<n id="2" /> you,&#8217; and after that I will go out.&#8221; Then Moses<n id="3" /> went out from Pharaoh in great anger.p>

When Pharaoh stubbornly refused<n id="1" /> to release us, the <sc>Lordsc> killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals.<n id="2" /> That is why I am sacrificing<n id="3" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.&#8217;