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Isn't this the word we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone so that we can serve Egypt!' because serving Egypt is better for us than our dying in the desert."

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry out to me? Speak to the Israelites so that they set out.

And you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it so that the Israelites can go in the middle of the sea on the dry land.

And as for me, look, I am about to harden the heart of the Egyptians so that they come after them, and I will display my glory through Pharaoh and through all of his army, through his chariots and through his charioteers.

so that it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. And it was a dark cloud, but it gave light to the night, so that neither approached the other all night.

And he removed the wheels of their chariots so that they drove them with difficulty, and the Egyptians said, "We must flee away from Israel because Yahweh is fighting for them against Egypt."

And so it was, in the evening, the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning, a layer of dew was all around the camp.

And the Israelites did so, and they gathered, some more and some less.

And Moses said, "This is the word that Yahweh has commanded. ‘A full omer of it is for safekeeping for your generations so that they will see the bread that I fed you in the desert when I brought you from the land of Egypt.'"

As Yahweh had commanded Moses, so Aaron left it before the testimony for safekeeping.

And the people quarreled with Moses, and they said, "Give us water so that we can drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"

Look, I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out from it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel.

And let them judge the people all the time, and every major issue they will bring to you, and every minor issue they will judge themselves. And so lighten it for yourself, and they will bear it with you.

"Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.

And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you so that his fear will be before you so that you do not sin."

"‘Six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you will stop so that your ox and your donkey will rest and the son of your slave woman and the alien will be refreshed.

according to all that I show you—the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its equipment—and so you will do.

And you will make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end in the set; and you will do so on the edge of the end curtain in the second set.

And you will make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be one.

And you will make fifty bronze clasps, and you will put the clasps in the loops and join the tent, so that it will be one.