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And he said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her."

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, I am going to come to you in a thick cloud in order that the people will hear when I speak with you and will also trust in you forever." And Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

"I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.

You will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I am Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing the guilt of the parents on the children on the third and on the fourth generations of those hating me,

because it is his only garment; it is his cloak for his skin. In what will he sleep? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, because I am gracious.

"‘Look, I am about to send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.

And they will know that I am Yahweh, their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt in order to dwell in their midst. I am Yahweh their God.

"And you, speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, because it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, in order to know that I am Yahweh, who consecrates you.

And he said, "Look, I am about to make a covenant. In front of all your people I will do wonders that have not been created on all the earth and among all the nations, and all the people among whom you are will see Yahweh's work, because what I am about to do with you will be awesome.

"Keep for yourself what I myself have commanded you today. Look, I am about to drive from before you the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

because I am Yahweh your God, and you must keep yourselves sanctified, so that you shall be holy, because I am holy. And you must not make yourselves unclean with any swarmer that moves along on the land,

because I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be for you as God. Thus you shall be holy, because I am holy.

"When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am about to give to you as your possession, and I put mildew in a house in the land of your possession,

"Speak to the Israelites, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.

You must not carry out the practices of the land of Egypt, in which you lived, and you must not carry out the practices of the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you; and you must not follow their statutes.

You must carry out my regulations, and you must observe my statutes by following them; I am Yahweh your God.

And you shall observe my statutes and my regulations by which the person doing them shall live; I am Yahweh.

"‘None of you shall approach anyone who is his close relative to expose nakedness; I am Yahweh.

"‘And you shall not give any of your offspring in order to sacrifice them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh.

"‘You must not make yourself unclean in any of these things, because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these.