He said to his daughters, "So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us."

God said, "Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."

Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him.

I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.

But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of this land.

Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.

No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt.

You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.'"

Moses said to the people, "Remember this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the place where you were enslaved, for the Lord brought you out of there with a mighty hand -- and no bread made with yeast may be eaten.

Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

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."

Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, together with Moses' sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camping by the mountain of God.

The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.

But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

You are to make four rings of gold for it and attach the rings at the four corners where its four legs are.

"This will be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.

"You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.

Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.

He cast four gold rings for it and attached the rings at the four corners where its four legs were.