Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.<n id="1" />

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, &#8220;Why are you treating<n id="2" /> your servants this way?

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

Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.p>

But the <sc>Lordsc> hardened Pharaoh&#8217;s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.p>

Your lamb must be<n id="1" /> perfect,<n id="2" /> a male, one year old;<n id="3" /> you may take<n id="4" /> it from the sheep or from the goats.

You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

When your children ask you, &#8216;What does this ceremony mean to you?&#8217;<n id="1" /> &#8211;

and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses and Aaron.<n id="1" />p>

Now the Israelites had done<n id="1" /> as Moses told them &#8211; they had requested from the Egyptians<n id="2" /> silver and gold items and clothing.

<p class="bodytext">The Israelites journeyed<n id="1" /> from Rameses<n id="2" /> to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men<n id="3" /> on foot, plus their dependants.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">You are to tell your son<n id="1" /> on that day,<n id="2" /> &#8216;It is<n id="3" /> because of what<n id="4" /> the <sc>Lordsc> did for me when I came out of Egypt.&#8217;

Pharaoh will think<n id="1" /> regarding the Israelites, &#8216;They are wandering around confused<n id="2" /> in the land &#8211; the desert has closed in on them.&#8217;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.<n id="1" />

So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall<n id="1" /> for them on their right and on their left.p>

But the Israelites walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

The entire company<n id="1" /> of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the desert.

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;

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">In the third month after the Israelites went out<n id="2" /> from the land of Egypt, on the very day,<n id="3" /> they came to the Desert of Sinai.