See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

Pharaoh was thinking, "The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor."

So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, "Thus says Pharaoh: 'I am not giving you straw.

"Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you.

The rich are not to increase it, and the poor are not to pay less than the half shekel when giving the offering of the Lord, to make atonement for your lives.