Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it,

Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes, do so." So the young girl went and got the child's mother.

Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.

When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "Because I drew him from the water."

When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said, "Moses, Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."

Every woman will ask her neighbor and the one who happens to be staying in her house for items of silver and gold and for clothing. You will put these articles on your sons and daughters -- thus you will plunder Egypt!"

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses' feet, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

Instruct the people that each man and each woman is to request from his or her neighbor items of silver and gold."

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a hand-drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with hand-drums and with dances.

So Joshua fought against Amalek just as Moses had instructed him;and Moses and Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

When the hands of Moses became heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other, and so his hands were steady until the sun went down.

Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses had said, "I have been a foreigner in a foreign land"),

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

The Lord said to Moses, "I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you." And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.

If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.

If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one's food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

"If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman's husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

"If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and has sexual relations with her, he must surely endow her to be his wife.

If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

for it is his only covering -- it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

He told the elders, "Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Here are Aaron and Hur with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute can approach them."

blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair,

"You are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you are to make eleven curtains.

"See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

Moses said, "It is not the sound of those who shout for victory, nor is it the sound of those who cry because they are overcome, but the sound of singing I hear."

The Lord said to Moses, "Go up from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants.'

And Moses said to him, "If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.

The Lord said, "Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock.

blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, fine linen, goat's hair,

Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, fine linen, goats' hair, ram skins dyed red, or fine leather brought them.

Every woman who was skilled spun with her hands and brought what she had spun, blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen,

and all the women whose heart stirred them to action and who were skilled spun goats' hair.

Moses said to the Israelites, "See, the Lord has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

He made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains.

Now Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the Lord had commanded Moses;