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There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire coming out of a bush. Moses looked, and although the bush was ablaze, it was not burning away.
When the LORD saw that he had come over to look, God called out to him from the bush: “Moses! Moses!” “Yes, I am here,” he answered.
The LORD said, “I have taken full note of the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them cry out under their taskmasters. I know how they are suffering.
God also told Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has sent me to you.’ That is my name for all time, the name by which I am to be remembered in every generation.
Go and call together the elders of Israel and tell them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, appeared to me. He said, “I have come to your aid, and I have taken note of how you are treated in Egypt.
They will listen to you. Then you and the elders of Israel are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has come to meet us. Now please allow us to make a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
Moses replied, “But they will not trust me or pay attention to what I say. They will say, ‘The LORD never appeared to you.’”
The LORD asked him, “What is that you are holding?” “A staff,” he answered.
Then the LORD told Moses, “Reach out and catch it by the tail.” He reached out and grasped it, and it became a staff again in his hand.
“This is so that they will believe that the LORD has appeared to you, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
The LORD spoke to him again: “Put your hand inside the fold of your robe.” Moses did so, and when he drew it out, his hand was diseased, white as snow.
Then Moses said to the LORD, “Please, Lord, I have never been a good speaker, not in the past, and not since you began speaking to your servant. My mouth is slow and my tongue is clumsy.”
The LORD answered him, “Who gave human beings a mouth? Who makes a person unable to speak or hear, or able to see, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Then the LORD became angry with Moses and said, “What about Aaron the Levite, your brother? I know he is a fluent speaker. In fact he is setting out now to meet you, and his heart will be full of joy when he sees you.
The LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt. All those who wanted you dead have died themselves.”
The LORD told Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, be sure to do in Pharaoh’s presence all the wonders I have given you power to perform. But I will make his heart stubborn, and he will refuse to let the people go.
Then tell Pharaoh, ‘The LORD says this: Israel is my firstborn son.
On the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD confronted Moses and was about to kill him.
The LORD said to Aaron, “Go out into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went, and he met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.
Moses reported to Aaron all the words the LORD had sent him with, and all the signs he had ordered him to perform.
Aaron repeated all that the LORD had said to Moses, and he performed the signs in the people’s sight.
And the people believed. When they heard that the LORD had come to help the Israelites and had seen their suffering, they bowed low and worshiped.
After that, Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Release my people so that they can celebrate a festival for me in the wilderness.’”
Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD, that I should do what he says and release Israel? I do not know the LORD, and I will certainly not let Israel go.”
They said, “The God of the Hebrews has come to meet us. Please let us travel three days into the wilderness to offer sacrifice to the LORD our God, or he may strike us down with disease or war.”
But he answered, “You are idle, nothing but idle! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to the LORD.’
They said to them, “May the LORD see what you have done and judge you! You have made us hateful to Pharaoh and his officials, and you have handed them a sword to kill us.”
Moses turned back to the LORD and said, “Lord, why have you brought this evil on this people? Why did you send me at all?
The LORD answered Moses, “Now you are going to see what I will do to Pharaoh. Compelled by a strong hand, he will release them; compelled by a strong hand, he will drive them from his land.”
God spoke to Moses and told him, “I am the LORD.
I showed myself to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I did not make myself known to them by my name, the LORD.
So tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD. I will lead you out from under the forced labor of the Egyptians and rescue you from serving them as slaves. I will redeem you with my arm stretched out and with great acts of judgment.
I will claim you as a people for me, and I will be your God. And you will know that I am the LORD your God, the one who brings you out from under the forced labor of Egypt.
I will bring you into the land that I promised with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you to hold as your own. I am the LORD.’”
Then the LORD said to Moses,
But Moses answered the LORD, “Even the Israelites have not listened to me. How can I expect Pharaoh to listen, when I speak so poorly?”
The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt: they were to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
This Aaron and this Moses are the ones the LORD told, “Lead the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, company by company.”
Now on the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
the LORD said to Moses, “I am the LORD. Repeat to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, every word I speak to you.”
But Moses replied in the presence of the LORD, “I am such a poor speaker. How will Pharaoh ever listen to me?”
The LORD said to Moses, “See, I have appointed you to be as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will serve as your prophet.
When I reach out my hand against Egypt and lead the Israelites out from among its people, the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.”
So Moses and Aaron obeyed; they did just what the LORD told them.
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the LORD had commanded. Aaron cast his staff to the ground before Pharaoh and his court, and it turned into a serpent.
But Pharaoh’s heart remained stubborn. He refused to listen to them, as the LORD had said he would.
The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh is stubborn at heart and will not release the people.
Say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to tell you, “Release my people, so they can serve me in the wilderness.” So far, you have refused to listen.
This is what the LORD says: “Here is how you will know that I am the LORD: I am about to strike the Nile’s water with this staff in my hand, and it will become blood.
The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and hold out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over its branches of the Nile, its canals, its marshes, and every place where its water is collected, so that they become blood.’ Blood will be found all through the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and of stone.”
Moses and Aaron did as the LORD had commanded. While Pharaoh and his officials watched, he lifted up the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water in the river was turned into blood.
But the magicians of Egypt did the same with their spells, and Pharaoh’s heart stayed stubborn. He did not listen to them; it happened as the LORD had said.
After the LORD had struck the Nile, seven full days passed.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘The LORD says this: “Release my people, so they can serve me.
The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Hold out your hand with your staff over the rivers, the canals, and the pools, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.’”
Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “Plead with the LORD to rid me and my people of the frogs, and I will release the people so they can offer sacrifice to the LORD.”
Pharaoh answered, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Then it will be done at your word, and you will learn that the LORD our God has no equal.
Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh’s presence, and Moses called out to the LORD about the frogs that he had sent against Pharaoh.
The LORD granted Moses’ request. In the houses, the courtyards, and the fields, the frogs died off.
Once Pharaoh saw that he had breathing room, he hardened his heart. He would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
The LORD told Moses, “Tell Aaron to hold out his staff and strike the dust on the ground. Throughout the land of Egypt the dust will turn into gnats.”
The magicians told Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God at work!” But Pharaoh’s heart stayed stubborn, and he refused to listen to them, as the LORD had said.
The LORD said to Moses, “Be up early in the morning and take your stand in front of Pharaoh as he comes out to the water. Say to him, ‘The LORD says this: Release my people so that they can serve me.
On that day, though, I will set apart Goshen, the region where my people live: no flies will swarm there. That way you will learn that I, the LORD, am right here in the land.
The LORD carried this out. Great swarms of flies invaded Pharaoh’s house and his officials’ houses. Across the whole land of Egypt, the flies brought ruin to the land.
Moses answered, “It would not be fitting to do that. The sacrifices we offer to the LORD our God are offensive to the Egyptians. If we offered, right in front of them, sacrifices they find offensive, they would stone us, would they not?
We will travel for three days into the wilderness, and there we will sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he instructs us.”
Pharaoh said, “Very well, I will release you, and you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness. Just do not travel too far away. And pray on my behalf.”
Moses said, “I am leaving you now, and I will plead with the LORD. Tomorrow the flies will depart from Pharaoh, from his officials, and from his people. But Pharaoh must not trick us again and keep the people from going to sacrifice to the LORD.”
Moses went out from Pharaoh’s presence and prayed to the LORD.
The LORD answered Moses’ request and took the flies away from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. Not a single one was left.
The LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says this: Release my people, so they can serve me.
then the hand of the LORD will fall on your animals out in the fields, on your horses, donkeys, and camels, your cattle and your sheep, with a very severe disease.
But the LORD will set Israel’s livestock apart from Egypt’s, and not one animal that belongs to the Israelites will die.’”
The LORD fixed a time and said, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”
The LORD carried this out on the following day. Egypt’s livestock all died, but of the livestock of the Israelites not one animal was lost.
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Fill both your hands with soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it up toward the sky in Pharaoh’s sight.
The LORD, however, hardened the heart of Pharaoh, who refused to listen to them, as the LORD had told Moses.
The LORD said to Moses, “Be up early in the morning and take your stand in front of Pharaoh. Tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says this: Release my people, so they can serve me.
Among Pharaoh’s officials, those who feared the word of the LORD made their servants and their livestock run for the houses.
Others gave no thought to the word of the LORD and left their servants and livestock out in the open.
The LORD told Moses, “Raise your hand toward the sky so that hail comes down all over the land of Egypt, striking people, animals, and every green plant in Egypt’s fields.”
Moses held his staff up toward the sky, and the LORD sent out peals of thunder and hail. Lightning streaked down to the earth while the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.
Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said to them, “I have sinned this time. The LORD is in the right, and the guilt lies with me and my people.
Plead with the LORD. There has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will release you. You will stay here no longer.”
Moses replied, “As soon as I am outside the city, I will spread my hands out toward the LORD. Then the thunder will end and the hail will be gone, and you will learn that the earth belongs to the LORD.
But you and your officials, I know, have yet to fear the LORD God.”
So Moses left Pharaoh and went outside the city, where he spread his hands out toward the LORD. The thunder and hail came to an end, and the rain stopped pouring onto the ground.
Pharaoh remained stubborn and refused to release the Israelites. It was as the LORD had foretold through Moses.
The LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh. It is I who have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, in order to set these signs of mine right among them,
and so that you can tell your children and grandchildren the story of how I made a mockery of Egypt, and of the signs I set among them. And you will all know that I am the LORD.”
So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, “The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says this: ‘How long will you go on refusing to bow before me? Release my people, so that they can serve me.
Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long must this man be a trap for us? Let the men go and serve the LORD their God. Have you still not grasped that Egypt is lost?”
Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, who said to them, “Go and serve the LORD your God. But exactly who will be going?”
Moses said, “Young and old alike, we will go. Our sons and daughters will go, and our flocks and herds too, for we are holding a festival of the LORD.”
Pharaoh said to them, “So the LORD be with you, just as surely as I will let you go with your little ones! Plainly you are plotting harm.
Not that way! You men may go and serve the LORD; that, after all, is what you want.” With that, they were driven away from Pharaoh.
The LORD said to Moses, “Hold out your hand over the land of Egypt to bring the locusts. They will come up over the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the country, everything the hail left standing.”
So Moses held out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD sent an east wind blowing over the land all that day and all that night. When morning came, the locusts were there, borne in on the east wind.
Pharaoh hastily sent for Moses and Aaron. He said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you too.
Now please forgive my sin, just this once. Plead with the LORD your God to lift this death from me, if nothing more.”
Moses went out from Pharaoh’s presence and prayed to the LORD.
Then the LORD turned the wind around. A gale blew in from the west, lifted the locusts, and swept them into the Red Sea. In all the territory of Egypt not one locust remained.
Yet the LORD made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not release the Israelites.
The LORD said to Moses, “Raise your hand toward the sky, and darkness will come over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick that people can feel it.”
Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go and serve the LORD. Only your flocks and herds are to be kept back; even your little ones may go along with you.”
Moses said, “You yourself must even put into our hands sacrifices and burnt offerings for us to offer to the LORD our God.
Our animals are coming with us too; not a single hoof will stay behind. It is from them that we must take what we use to serve the LORD our God, and until we reach the place, we ourselves cannot tell which ones we will need to serve the LORD.”
But the LORD made Pharaoh stubborn, and he would not agree to let them go.
The LORD said to Moses, “There is one plague still to come. I will bring it on Pharaoh and on Egypt, and after it he will let you leave this place. When he lets you go, he will drive you out of here for good.
The LORD made the Egyptians look kindly on the people. Moses, too, was a very great man in the land of Egypt; Pharaoh’s officials and the people looked on him with respect.
Moses then told Pharaoh, “The LORD says this: ‘Around midnight I am going out into the heart of Egypt.
But among the Israelites not even a dog will snarl at anyone, human or animal. So you will know that the LORD sets Israel apart from Egypt.’
The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not heed you, so that I may do still more wonders in the land of Egypt.”
Moses and Aaron did all these wonders in front of Pharaoh, but the LORD made Pharaoh’s heart stubborn, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.
In the land of Egypt, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
When you eat it, be ready to set out: robes tucked into your belts, sandals on, staffs in hand. Eat it quickly. It is the LORD’s Passover.
This very night I will go through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn in it, human and animal alike. Against all the gods of Egypt I will carry out judgments. I am the LORD.
This day is to be one you remember. Hold a feast to the LORD on it, generation after generation, as a statute for all time.
The LORD will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on both doorposts, he will pass over that doorway and not allow the destroyer into your houses to strike you.
And once you have come into the land that the LORD will give you, just as he has said, you are to go on keeping this service.
Then you are to tell them, ‘This is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover. When he struck Egypt, he passed over the houses of the Israelites there and rescued our homes.’” At this the people bowed low and worshiped.
Then the Israelites went and did it. They did exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
In the middle of the night the LORD struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, the king on his throne, down to the firstborn of the captive locked in the dungeon, along with every firstborn among the animals.
While it was still night, Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Get out from among my people, you and the Israelites with you! Go and serve the LORD, as you have been saying.
The LORD had made the Egyptians look kindly on the people, and they granted what was asked. So Israel stripped Egypt of its wealth.
When the 430 years were over, on that very same day, all the ranks of the LORD marched out of the land of Egypt.
That was a night when the LORD kept watch, so as to bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night belongs to the LORD, and all the Israelites are to keep watch on it, generation after generation.
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute for the Passover. No foreigner is to eat of it.
Suppose a foreigner living among you wants to hold a Passover for the LORD. Every male in his household must first be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it, and he will count as one born in the land. But anyone uncircumcised is not to eat of it.
All the Israelites carried out exactly what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
On that same day the LORD led the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, company by company.
The LORD said to Moses,
Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. The LORD brought you out of this place by the strength of his hand. No leavened bread may be eaten.
When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, the land he swore to your ancestors that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you are to perform this rite in this same month.
You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, and the seventh day is a feast in honor of the LORD.
On that day tell your son what it means: ‘The LORD acted for me when I left Egypt, and that is why we do this.’
This feast will be a sign for you, like a mark on your hand, and a reminder, like a mark between your eyes, so that the instruction of the LORD stays on your lips. For with a strong hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
Once the LORD has brought you into the land of the Canaanites and handed it over to you, as he swore he would to you and to your ancestors,
then you must hand over to the LORD every firstborn that opens the womb. Every firstling born to your animals that is a male belongs to the LORD.
Later on, when your son asks you, ‘What is this?’ you shall answer him, ‘By the strength of his hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
When Pharaoh hardened himself against letting us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, the firstborn of people and of animals alike. So I offer to the LORD in sacrifice every male that first opens the womb, and I redeem each firstborn among my sons.’
It will be a sign for you, like a mark on your hand and a band between your eyes, for by the strength of his hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
The LORD went in front of them, in a pillar of cloud by day so that he could guide them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to light their path. In that way they could keep moving both day and night.
Then the LORD said to Moses,
I will make Pharaoh’s heart stubborn, and he will chase after them. Then I will win glory at the expense of Pharaoh and all his forces, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” The Israelites did as they were told.
The LORD made the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, stubborn, and he went after the Israelites, who were leaving with heads held high.
Pharaoh was drawing closer. When the Israelites looked up, they saw the Egyptians advancing behind them, and they were filled with fear. The Israelites cried out to the LORD.
But Moses told the people, “Have no fear! Hold your ground and watch how the LORD will save you today. You see the Egyptians today, but you will never see them again.
The LORD will fight on your behalf, and you can stay quiet.”
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to break camp and go forward.
The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I have won glory at the expense of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
Moses held his hand out over the sea, and all night long the LORD pushed the sea back with a powerful east wind. He turned the sea into dry land, and the waters were split apart.
In the last hours of the night, before morning, the LORD looked down on the Egyptian camp from the pillar of fire and cloud and threw the camp into panic.
He made the wheels come off their chariots, so that they could hardly drive. Then the Egyptians said, “We must run from Israel, because the LORD is fighting on their side against Egypt!”
The LORD said to Moses, “Hold your hand out over the sea, and the waters will flow back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and their horsemen.”
So Moses held his hand out over the sea, and as morning broke the sea went back to its usual flow. The Egyptians were fleeing straight into it, and the LORD shook them off into the middle of the sea.
So on that day the LORD saved Israel from the power of Egypt, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead along the edge of the sea.
Israel had seen the great hand of the LORD at work against Egypt. So the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in Moses, his servant.
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for he is lifted high in triumph; horse and rider he has flung into the sea.
The LORD is a man of war; his name is the LORD.
O LORD, your right hand is splendid in power; O LORD, your right hand smashed the enemy.
Among the gods, who compares with you, O LORD? Who is like you, splendid in holiness, fearsome in deeds of praise, doer of wonders?
Fear and dread came down on them; at the might of your arm they stood silent as stone, while your people crossed over, O LORD, while the people you made your own crossed over.
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, the place you have prepared for your dwelling, O LORD, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your own hands set firm.
The LORD will reign forever and ever!”
Pharaoh’s horses, with his chariots and his horsemen, had gone into the sea, and the LORD had turned the sea’s waters back on top of them; but the Israelites had walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground.
Miriam led them in the refrain: “Sing to the LORD, for he is lifted high in triumph; horse and rider he has flung into the sea.”
Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD pointed him to a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water turned sweet. It was there that the LORD laid down a statute and a rule for them, and there that he put them to the test.
He said, “If you listen closely to the voice of the LORD your God and do what he sees as right, if you pay heed to his commands and keep all his statutes, I will spare you every one of the sicknesses that I laid on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
The Israelites said to them, “We wish we had died at the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt! There we sat beside the pots of meat and ate all the bread we could hold. But you two have brought us out into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger.”
The LORD said to Moses, “I am about to rain bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather the amount needed for that day. By this I will test them, to see whether they will live by my law or not.
Moses and Aaron told all the Israelites, “This evening you will come to know that it was the LORD who led you out of the land of Egypt,
and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD. For he has heard the grumbling you have aimed at the LORD. As for us, what are we? Why grumble against us?”
Moses went on, “You will see this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning until you are full, because the LORD has heard the grumbling you direct at him. What are we? Your grumbling is not aimed at us at all, but at the LORD.”
Moses told Aaron to tell the whole community of the Israelites to come close and stand before the LORD, because he had heard their grumbling.
While Aaron was still addressing the whole community of the Israelites, they turned to face the wilderness, and suddenly the glory of the LORD could be seen in the cloud.
Then the LORD said to Moses,
“The grumbling of the Israelites has reached my ears. Tell them this: ‘As evening falls you will eat meat, and in the morning you will have your fill of bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”
“What is it?” the Israelites asked one another when they saw it, since they did not know what it was. Moses answered them, “It is bread, given to you by the LORD as your food.
Here is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each of you is to gather as much as you need to eat, about 2 quarts for every person. The head of each household is to collect it for everyone who lives in his tent.’”
He told them, “This is what the LORD said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD.’ So today bake whatever you mean to bake and boil whatever you mean to boil. Put aside everything left over and keep it for the morning.”
Moses said, “Today, eat this. Today is a Sabbath to the LORD; you will find none of it out in the field today.
The LORD said to Moses, “How long will you people go on refusing to keep my commandments and my laws?
Understand this: the LORD has given you the Sabbath. That is why on the sixth day he provides you with bread for two days. On the seventh day all of you are to stay where you are; no one is to leave home.”
Moses said, “Here is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Set aside a full 2 quarts of it to be kept for your descendants, generation after generation. Then they can look at the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness after I brought you out of Egypt.’”
Moses told Aaron, “Get a jar and put a full 2 quarts of manna into it. Then set it in the presence of the LORD, to be kept for all your generations to come.”
Aaron set it in front of the testimony for safekeeping, as the LORD had told Moses to do.
The whole community of the Israelites moved on from the wilderness of Sin, traveling in stages as the LORD commanded. They made camp at Rephidim, but there was no water there for the people to drink.
The people turned on Moses in a quarrel. “Give us water to drink!” they demanded. Moses answered them, “Why pick a quarrel with me? Why put the LORD to the test?”
Moses cried out to the LORD, “What am I going to do with this people? A little more of this, and they will stone me!”
The LORD told Moses, “Walk on ahead of the people, and bring some of Israel’s elders with you. Take along your staff, the one you struck the Nile with, hold it in your hand, and go.
He named the place Massah, “testing,” and Meribah, “quarreling,” because there the Israelites quarreled, and there they put the LORD to the test by asking, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Record this in a scroll to be remembered, and say it over to Joshua: I will wipe out the memory of Amalek completely from under the heavens.”
Then Moses built an altar there, and he gave it the name “The LORD Is My Banner.”
He said, “A hand is lifted to the throne of the LORD! The LORD will fight Amalek generation after generation.”
Word reached Jethro, the priest of Midian and Moses’ father-in-law, of everything God had done for Moses and for Israel, his people: the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Moses gave his father-in-law a full account of what the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on Israel’s behalf. He told of every hardship that had come upon them on their journey, and of how the LORD had delivered them.
Jethro was glad because of all the good the LORD had done for Israel when he rescued them from the power of Egypt.
Jethro said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the grip of Egypt and of Pharaoh, and has freed this people from under Egypt’s hand.
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all the gods, for he showed it in the very matter in which they acted proudly against Israel.”
Moses went up to God, and the LORD called out to him from the mountain: “Say this to the house of Jacob, and declare it to the Israelites:
Moses came back and called the elders of the people together. He laid out for them all these words, just as the LORD had commanded him.
The people answered as one: “We will do everything the LORD has spoken.” And Moses carried the people’s words back to the LORD.
The LORD said to Moses, “Look, I am coming to you in a dark, heavy cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you and will trust you from now on.” Moses reported the people’s words to the LORD.
The LORD told Moses, “Go to the people, and today and tomorrow consecrate them. They must wash their clothes
and be prepared for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will descend upon Mount Sinai with all the people watching.
All of Mount Sinai was smoking, since the LORD had come down upon it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke rising from a kiln, and the entire mountain shook with great force.
The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, onto the mountain’s summit, and called Moses up to the summit. So Moses went up.
The LORD said to Moses, “Go down and give the people a strict warning, so that they do not push past the boundary toward the LORD to gaze, and many of them fall dead.
And the priests who come near to the LORD must also consecrate themselves, so that the LORD does not burst out against them.”
Moses answered the LORD, “There is no way the people can climb Mount Sinai. You gave us a warning: ‘Mark out a boundary around the mountain and treat it as holy.’”
The LORD answered him, “Go back down, and then return, you and Aaron with you. As for the priests and the people, they are not to push through to come up to the LORD, or he will burst out against them.”
“I am the LORD your God. I brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house where you were slaves.
You shall neither bow to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God. I bring the guilt of fathers upon their children, upon the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
You shall not use the name of the LORD your God for what is false or worthless, for the LORD will not let anyone go unpunished who uses his name that way.
but the seventh day is a Sabbath for the LORD your God. Do no work on it: not you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your livestock, nor the foreigner living among you in your towns.
For the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything in them, in six days, and on the seventh day he rested. For this reason the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Honor your father and your mother. Then your days will be long in the land the LORD your God is going to give you.
The LORD said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: ‘You saw with your own eyes that I spoke with you from heaven.
Then the two of them shall settle it with an oath of the LORD: the one who kept the animal swears to having taken none of the neighbor’s property. The owner must accept the oath, and nothing has to be paid back.
Anyone who offers sacrifice to other gods, and not to the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.
The best of your ground’s firstfruits you are to bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water. I will take sickness away from among you.
God also told Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders. You are to bow low in worship while still far off.
Moses by himself is to approach the LORD. The rest are to stay back, and the people are not to climb the mountain with him.”
Moses came and reported to the people all that the LORD had said, every word and every rule. The whole people answered together as one: “We will do every word the LORD has spoken.”
Moses put all the words of the LORD in writing. He was up early the next morning to build an altar below the mountain, with twelve pillars, one for each tribe of Israel.
He sent out young men of the Israelites. They presented burnt offerings and slaughtered bulls as fellowship offerings for the LORD.
Then he took the scroll of the covenant and read it aloud for the people to hear. They answered, “Whatever the LORD has said, we will carry out. We will listen and obey.”
Moses took the blood and dashed it over the people. “Look,” he said, “the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you on the terms of all these words.”
The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and remain there. I will give you the tablets of stone, the law and commandment that I have written to teach the people.”
The glory of the LORD came to dwell on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered the mountain six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from inside the cloud.
As the Israelites watched, the glory of the LORD appeared on the mountaintop like a fire that devours.
The LORD said to Moses,
Aaron and his sons are to tend it in the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that screens the testimony, from evening to morning before the LORD. This is a statute for all time for the Israelites, generation after generation.
Put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel. Aaron will carry their names before the LORD on his two shoulders, for remembrance.
So Aaron will carry the names of the sons of Israel on the breastpiece of judgment over his heart whenever he goes into the holy place, to keep them in remembrance before the LORD at all times.
Put the Urim and the Thummim into the breastpiece of judgment, so that they are over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the LORD. So Aaron will always carry, over his heart before the LORD, the judgment of the Israelites.
The robe is to be on Aaron when he ministers. As he enters the holy place to stand before the LORD, and as he leaves, its ringing will be heard, and so he will not die.
You are to make a plate of pure gold and cut on it, the way a seal is cut, the words ‘Holy to the LORD.’
Aaron is to wear it on his forehead. In this way he will carry the guilt of the holy things the Israelites consecrate, whatever holy gifts they bring. It will rest on his forehead at all times, so that they find acceptance before the LORD.
Slaughter the bull there before the LORD, at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
Send up the whole ram in smoke from the altar as a burnt offering to the LORD. It is an offering by fire to the LORD, with an aroma that pleases him.
along with one round loaf of bread, one loaf made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that stands before the LORD.
Set all of it on the open hands of Aaron and his sons, and present it to the LORD with a waving motion as a wave offering.
Afterward take these from their hands and send them up in smoke on the altar, on top of the burnt offering, as an aroma pleasing to the LORD. This is an offering by fire to the LORD.
Then take the breast from the ram used to ordain Aaron, and present it to the LORD as a wave offering. That piece is to be your share.
This will be the lasting share that Aaron and his sons receive from the Israelites. It is a contribution: whenever the Israelites sacrifice fellowship offerings, this part is their contribution to the LORD.
The second lamb you will offer as evening falls. Prepare with it a grain offering and a drink offering like those of the morning, an offering by fire to the LORD whose aroma pleases him.
This is to be the regular burnt offering, generation after generation, at the doorway of the tent of meeting before the LORD. That is where I will meet with you, to speak to you.
Then they will know that I am the LORD their God. I brought them out of the land of Egypt for this purpose, to make my home among them. I am the LORD their God.
And when he lights the lamps at dusk he is to burn it again. This is to be the regular incense offered before the LORD, generation after generation.
Aaron is to make atonement on its horns one time each year, using blood from the sin offering of atonement. Once every year, generation after generation, atonement is to be made on it. It is most holy to the LORD.”
The LORD said to Moses,
“Whenever you take a census of the Israelites and enroll them, every man is to give the LORD a ransom for his life at his enrollment. That way no plague will fall on them while the count is being made.
Each one who crosses over to join those already counted is to give this: about 1/5 ounce of silver, weighed by the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. This silver is a contribution to the LORD.
All who cross over to the counted, from twenty years old and up, are to give this contribution to the LORD.
When you bring the contribution to the LORD to make atonement for your lives, the rich are not to give more than the 1/5 ounce, nor the poor less.
Collect the atonement money from the Israelites and put it toward the work of the tent of meeting. It will be a reminder before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites, making atonement for your lives.”
The LORD said to Moses,
Each time they enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water, so that they do not die. The same is true when they come near the altar to serve by burning an offering by fire to the LORD:
The LORD said to Moses,
The LORD said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices, stacte, onycha and galbanum, spices together with pure frankincense, an equal weight of each.
As for the incense you are to make, you must never make any by the same recipe for yourselves. You are to count it holy, belonging to the LORD.
The LORD said to Moses,
The LORD also said to Moses,
“Tell the Israelites: ‘Whatever else you do, keep my Sabbaths. The Sabbath is a sign between me and you for all your generations, so that you will know that I am the LORD, the one who sets you apart as holy.
There are six days in which work may be done. The seventh day, though, is a Sabbath of full rest, set apart as holy to the LORD. Anyone who works on the Sabbath day must be put to death.
It is a sign between me and the Israelites for all time, because in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he stopped working and was refreshed.’”
When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and made a proclamation: “Tomorrow we hold a feast to the LORD.”
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.
The LORD went on to say to Moses, “I have seen what this people is like. They are a stiff-necked people.
But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger blaze against your own people? You brought them out of the land of Egypt by great power and a strong hand.
And the LORD relented from the harm he had said he would do to his people.
Moses took his stand at the gate of the camp and called out, “Who is on the LORD’s side? Come here to me!” And all the Levites rallied around him.
He said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every man of you fasten his sword at his side. Pass through the camp from gate to gate and back again. Kill, every one of you, your brother, your friend and your neighbor.’”
Moses said, “Today you have ordained yourselves for the LORD, for each of you took a stand against his own son and brother. And so this day a blessing has been given you.”
The next day Moses told the people, “What you have done is a terrible sin. But I will go up again to the LORD. It may be that I can make atonement for your sin.”
So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, hear me! This people has committed a terrible sin. They have made themselves gods out of gold.
The LORD answered Moses, “It is the one who has sinned against me whom I will blot out of my book.
Then the LORD sent a plague on the people for making the calf, the calf that Aaron had made.
The LORD said to Moses, “Move on from here, you and the people whom you led up out of the land of Egypt. Head for the land I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the land of which I said, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’
The LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. Were I to go up among you even for a moment, I would put an end to you. So take off your ornaments now, and then I will settle what I am going to do about you.’”
Moses made a practice of taking the tent and setting it up outside the camp, well away from it. He named it the tent of meeting. Whoever wanted to seek the LORD went out to the tent of meeting beyond the camp.
The LORD would speak with Moses face to face, the way a person talks with a friend. Moses then went back to the camp; but Joshua son of Nun, the young man who served him, stayed in the tent and did not leave it.
Moses said to the LORD, “You tell me, ‘Bring this people up,’ yet you have not made known to me who is to go with me. You have also said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in my sight.’
The LORD said to Moses, “This request too, the one you have just made, I will grant, because you have found favor in my sight and I know you by name.”
The LORD answered, “I will make all my goodness go past you, and I will announce the name ‘The LORD’ before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.”
The LORD said, “There is a place beside me. You are to stand there on the rock.
The LORD said to Moses, “Cut two new tablets out of stone, like the first pair. On them I will write the same words that stood on the first tablets, which you smashed.
So Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones. Early next morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, carrying the two stone tablets in his hand.
The LORD came down in the cloud and took his place there beside Moses, and he announced his name, the LORD.
The LORD passed in front of Moses and called out, “The LORD, the LORD, a God of tender compassion and grace, slow to grow angry, rich in faithful love and in truth,
The LORD said, “Here and now I am making a covenant. In front of all your people I will work marvels such as have never been brought into being anywhere on earth or in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see what the LORD does, for what I am about to do with you will fill them with awe.
Bow down to no other god. The LORD is named Jealous; he is a jealous God.
I will dispossess nations to make room for you and push your borders outward. And while you are away three times a year, going up to appear before the LORD your God, no one will scheme to seize your land.
The choicest of the first produce from your land you are to bring into the house of the LORD your God. Never boil a young goat in the milk of its own mother.”
The LORD told Moses, “Put these words in writing, for they are the terms on which I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
Moses remained there with the LORD for forty days and forty nights; he ate no food and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words.
After that all the Israelites came near, and Moses passed on to them as commands everything the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.
Each time Moses went into the presence of the LORD to talk with him, he kept the veil off until he came out again. Then he would come out and tell the Israelites what he had been commanded to say.
Moses gathered the whole community of the Israelites and said to them, “These are the things the LORD has commanded you to do:
There are six days in which work may be done, but the seventh day is to be holy for you, a Sabbath of full rest to the LORD. Anyone who works on it must be put to death.
Then Moses told the whole community of the Israelites, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
Set aside among yourselves a contribution for the LORD. Everyone whose heart moves them to give is to bring it as the LORD’s contribution: gold, silver and bronze;
Every one of you who is wise of heart is to come and make all that the LORD has commanded:
Then each one whose heart stirred them, and each one whose spirit moved them to give, came with the LORD’s contribution, to be used in building the tent of meeting, in all the service there, and in making the holy garments.
They came, the men along with the women, all who had willing hearts, and they brought brooches, earrings, signet rings and pendants, every kind of gold object. Everyone who dedicated gold to the LORD as a wave offering brought it.
Those who set aside silver or bronze brought it as a contribution for the LORD. People who had acacia wood that would serve for any of the work brought that as well.
The Israelites, every man and every woman whose heart moved them to give toward any of the work the LORD had commanded through Moses, brought it to the LORD as a freewill offering.
Then Moses said to the Israelites, “Take note: the LORD has chosen Bezalel by name, the son of Uri, son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah,
Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person whom the LORD has gifted with skill and understanding, so that they know how to do every task in the service of the sanctuary, will carry out the work exactly as the LORD has commanded.”
Moses called for Bezalel and Oholiab, along with all whom the LORD had made skillful, everyone whose heart stirred them to come forward and do the work.
and told Moses, “The people keep bringing more than enough for the task the LORD has commanded us to carry out.”
It was Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, who made all that the LORD had commanded Moses.
Out of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, finely woven garments were made for service in the holy place. Aaron’s holy garments were made as well, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
The woven band that went around it to fasten it was made the same way, in one piece with the ephod, of gold, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of fine twisted linen, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Bezalel set them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
They bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it lay on the woven band of the ephod and did not come away from it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Bell and pomegranate, bell and pomegranate, they went all around the hem of the robe, which was worn for ministering, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
and the sash of fine twisted linen with blue, purple and scarlet yarn, worked in colors by an embroiderer, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
From pure gold they made the plate that is the holy crown, and they engraved it, as a seal is engraved, with the words “Holy to the LORD.”
To it they attached a cord of blue so that it could be fixed high on the turban, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
In this way the whole work of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The Israelites carried out everything the LORD had commanded Moses; they did it all.
In every detail the Israelites had done the whole work as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Moses looked at all the work, and there it was, done in every point as the LORD had commanded. And Moses blessed them.
The LORD said to Moses,
Moses carried out all that the LORD had commanded him. That is just what he did.
He spread the tent over the tabernacle and laid the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
He brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the curtain that serves as a screen, shutting off the ark of the testimony from view, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
He set out the bread on it in rows before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
He set up the lamps before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
and burned sweet-smelling incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
He set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Each time they went into the tent of meeting or came near the altar, they washed, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the LORD.
Moses was unable to go into the tent of meeting, since the cloud had come to rest on it and the tabernacle was full of the glory of the LORD.
By day the cloud of the LORD rested over the tabernacle, and by night fire glowed within it. The whole house of Israel could see it, at every stage of their travels.