Study Desk

They made the dough they had brought out of Egypt into loaves of bread without yeast. Yeast was not added to the dough because they had been sent out of Egypt and could not wait. They could not make ready any food for themselves.

You will say to your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.'

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the people of Israel promise. He had said, "For sure God will keep you and you will carry my bones with you from here."

Then they said to Moses, "Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What have you done to us, in bringing us out of Egypt?

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter. So it was given the name Marah.

He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the arguing of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord, saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?"

And he said, "Because the Lord has promised to have war against Amalek through all time."

Moses told his father-in-law all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians because of Israel. He told him about how they had suffered on the way, and how the Lord had saved them.

Jethro was glad because of all the good things the Lord had done for Israel in saving them from the hand of the Egyptians.

Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to learn God's will.

Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord came down upon it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a stove. And the whole mountain shook.

If she does not please her owner who has taken her for himself, he will take pay for her to be set free. He does not have the right to sell her to a strange people, because he has not been fair to her.

"When men argue and one hits the other with a stone or with his hand, and he does not die but has to stay in bed because of it,

"If a man hits the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he will let the person go free because of the eye.

If he knocks out a tooth of his man or woman servant, he will let the person go free because of the tooth.

Do not make it hard for a stranger because you know how a stranger feels. You were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Listen to him and obey his voice. Do not turn against him, for he will not forgive your sins, because My name is in him.

They will eat those things that were used in worship when they were forgiven of their sin and when they were set apart for My work. But one who is not a religious leader may not eat them, because they are holy.

If any of the meat or bread used to set apart those who work for Me is left until morning, it must be burned. It must not be eaten, because it is holy.

Then the Lord sent trouble upon the people, because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.