Now Israel&#8217;s eyes were failing<n id="1" /> because of his age; he was not able to see well. So Joseph<n id="2" /> brought his sons<n id="3" /> near to him, and his father<n id="4" /> kissed them and embraced them.

Joseph positioned them;<n id="1" /> he put Ephraim on his right hand across from Israel&#8217;s left hand, and Manasseh on his left hand across from Israel&#8217;s right hand. Then Joseph brought them closer to his father.<n id="2" />

The angel of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> appeared<n id="2" /> to him in<n id="3" /> a flame of fire from within a bush.<n id="4" /> He looked<n id="5" /> &#8211; and<n id="6" /> the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!<n id="7" />

When the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> saw that<n id="2" /> he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said, &#8220;Moses, Moses!&#8221;<n id="3" /> And Moses<n id="4" /> said, &#8220;Here I am.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth<n id="1" /> and with his mouth,<n id="2" /> and I will teach you both<n id="3" /> what you must do.<n id="4" />

Tell him, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc>, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Release my people, that they may serve me<n id="2" /> in the desert!&#8221; But until now<n id="3" /> you have not listened.<n id="4" />

<v id="(7:26)" /><n id="1" /> Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go to Pharaoh and tell him, &#8216;Thus says the <sc>Lordsc>: &#8220;Release my people in order that they may serve me!

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go to Pharaoh and tell him, &#8216;Thus says the <sc>Lord,sc> the God of the Hebrews, &#8220;Release my people that they may serve me!

<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" />

<p class="bodytext">Moses<n id="1" /> went up to God, and the <sc>Lordsc> called to him from the mountain, &#8220;Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people<n id="2" /> of Israel:

So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, &#8220;Whoever is for the <sc>Lordsc>, come<n id="1" /> to me.&#8221;<n id="2" /> All the Levites gathered around him,

When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone;<n id="1" /> and they were afraid to approach him.

or his sin that he committed<n id="1" /> is made known to him,<n id="2" /> he must bring a flawless male goat as his offering.<n id="3" />

or his sin that he committed<n id="1" /> is made known to him,<n id="2" /> he must bring a flawless female goat<n id="3" /> as his offering for the sin<n id="4" /> that he committed.

<t /><p class="bodytext">He then slaughtered the burnt offering, and his sons<n id="1" /> handed<n id="2" /> the blood to him and he splashed<n id="3" /> it against the altar&#8217;s sides.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.<n id="1" />

But if the individual has no close relative<n id="1" /> to whom reparation can be made for the wrong, the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.

&#8220;Speak to Aaron and tell him, &#8216;When you set up<n id="1" /> the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light<n id="2" /> in front of the lampstand.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you,<n id="2" /> I the <sc>Lordsc><n id="3" /> will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.

Then the Israelites said to him, &#8220;We will go along the highway, and if we<n id="1" /> or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else.&#8221;p>