The taskmasters pressed them, saying, “Complete your work quota, your daily amount, just as when you had straw.”

So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.

And the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the sons of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.

Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Then all the sons of Israel did so; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

“You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just.

According to all that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, just so you shall construct it.

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Moreover, from the blue and purple and scarlet material, they made finely woven garments for ministering in the holy place as well as the holy garments which were for Aaron, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The skillfully woven band which was on it was like its workmanship, of the same material: of gold and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

And he placed them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

They bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it would be on the woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

alternating a bell and a pomegranate all around on the hem of the robe for the service, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

and the sash of fine twisted linen, and blue and purple and scarlet material, the work of the weaver, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

They fastened a blue cord to it, to fasten it on the turban above, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

And Moses examined all the work and behold, they had done it; just as the Lord had commanded, this they had done. So Moses blessed them.

He spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up a veil for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

He set the arrangement of bread in order on it before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

He lighted the lamps before the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

He set the altar of burnt offering before the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

When they entered the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.