So He let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood”—because of the circumcision.

Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.

On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you.

A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.

Is this not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the one did not come near the other all night.

Now when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?”

You will surely wear out, both yourself and these people who are with you, for the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.

If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him.

If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.

“He who sacrifices to any god, other than to the Lord alone, shall be utterly destroyed.

“Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

Moses alone, however, shall come near to the Lord, but they shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him.”

You shall put them in one basket, and present them in the basket along with the bull and the two rams.

Now then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

He said, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though the people are so obstinate, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your own possession.”