Now I know that the <sc>Lordsc> is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Moses&#8217; father-in-law said to him, &#8220;What<n id="1" /> you are doing is not good!

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, am your God,<n id="2" /> who brought you<n id="3" /> from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.<n id="4" />p>

The people kept<n id="1" /> their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness<n id="2" /> where God was.<n id="3" />p>

And you must not go up by steps to my altar, so that your nakedness is not exposed.&#8217;<n id="1" />p>

If a ransom is set for him,<n id="1" /> then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;I am going to send<n id="2" /> an angel<n id="3" /> before you to protect you as you journey<n id="4" /> and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.<n id="5" />

Little by little<n id="1" /> I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

You are to make its plates,<n id="1" /> its ladles,<n id="2" /> its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings;<n id="3" /> you are to make them of pure gold.

You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you<n id="1" /> on the mountain, so they must make it.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Thus you are to do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you are to consecrate them<n id="1" /> for<n id="2" /> seven days.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now this is what you are to prepare<n id="1" /> on the altar every day continually: two lambs a year old.

And the incense that you are to make, you must not make for yourselves using the same recipe; it is to be most holy to you, belonging to the <sc>Lordsc>.

the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the Holy Place. They will make all these things just as I have commanded you.&#8221;p>

So all<n id="1" /> the people broke off the gold earrings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.

But now, if you will forgive their sin&#8230;,<n id="1" /> but if not, wipe me out<n id="2" /> from your book that you have written.&#8221;<n id="3" />

The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Whoever has sinned against me &#8211; that person I will wipe out of my book.

Every skilled person<n id="1" /> among you is to come and make all that the <sc>Lordsc> has commanded:

and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled<n id="1" /> spun goats&#8217; hair.p>

This is what Moses did, according to all the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded him &#8211; so he did.p>