Make the work harder ¹  for the men so they will keep at it ²  and pay no attention to lying words!” ³ 

When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ ¹  –

¹ During ²  that long period of time ³  the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites ⁴  groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry ⁵  because of their slave labor went up to God.

When you enter the land that the Lord will give to you, just as he said, you must observe ¹  this ceremony.

and told Moses, “The people are bringing much more than ¹  is needed for the completion ²  of the work which the Lord commanded us to do!” ³ 

The Israelites did all the work according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

When ¹  the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, ²  then you will keep ³  this ceremony ⁴  in this month.

Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as ¹  an offering to the Lord, and everyone who had acacia wood ²  for any work of the service brought it. ³