You are to put into the ark the testimony<n id="1" /> that I will give to you.p>

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">Moses answered again,<n id="2" /> &#8220;And if<n id="3" /> they do not believe me or pay attention to me,<n id="4" /> but say, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> has not appeared to you&#8217;?&#8221;

&#8220;that they may believe that the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.&#8221;p>

and I said to you, &#8216;Let my son go that he may serve<n id="1" /> me,&#8217; but since you have refused to let him go,<n id="2" /> I will surely kill<n id="3" /> your son, your firstborn!&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

he said to him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc>. Tell<n id="2" /> Pharaoh king of Egypt all that<n id="3" /> I am telling<n id="4" /> you.&#8221;

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" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I will send my terror<n id="1" /> before you, and I will destroy<n id="2" /> all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs<n id="3" /> to you.

You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;You are to command the Israelites that they bring<n id="1" /> to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps<n id="2" /> will burn<n id="3" /> regularly.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;This will be a regular<n id="1" /> burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the <sc>Lordsc>, where I will meet<n id="2" /> with you to speak to you there.

Isn&#8217;t this what we told you<n id="1" /> in Egypt, &#8216;Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians,<n id="2" /> because it is better for us to serve<n id="3" /> the Egyptians than to die in the desert!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

They will judge<n id="1" /> the people under normal circumstances,<n id="2" /> and every difficult case<n id="3" /> they will bring to you, but every small case<n id="4" /> they themselves will judge, so that<n id="5" /> you may make it easier for yourself,<n id="6" /> and they will bear the burden<n id="7" /> with you.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;I am going to come<n id="1" /> to you in a dense cloud,<n id="2" /> so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.&#8221;<n id="3" /> And Moses told the words of the people to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8216;You must make for me an altar made of earth,<n id="1" /> and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings,<n id="2" /> your sheep and your cattle. In every place<n id="3" /> where I cause my name to be honored<n id="4" /> I will come to you and I will bless you.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;And you, bring near<n id="2" /> to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him from among the Israelites, so that they may minister as my priests<n id="3" /> &#8211; Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron&#8217;s sons.