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And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;

And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.

And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.

And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have, made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have given him a sword, to kill us.

The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled;

But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.

And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hung between thy eyes, for a remembrance: because the Lord hath brought us forth out of Egypt by a strong hand.

And Moses took Joseph’s bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.

And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of Mara because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness.

And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.

And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?

Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation.

And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had done to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians.

Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them.

And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

But if the party remain alive a day or two, he shall not be subject to the punishment, because it is his money.

For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

But the flesh of the calf, and the hide and the dung, thou shalt burn abroad, without the camp, because it is for sin.

Thou shalt take the fat of the ram, and the rump, and the fat that covereth the lungs, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, because it is the ram of consecration: