exodus

²³If you will do this, you will fulfill the orders of God, and you will be able to uphold his precepts. And this entire people will return to their places in peace.”

¹These are the names of the sons of Israel, who went into Egypt with Jacob. They entered, each one with his house: ²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, ³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, ⁴Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ⁵Therefore, all the souls of those who went forth from Jacob’s thigh were seventy. Now Joseph was in Egypt. ⁶When he had died, along with all of his brothers and all of that generation,

¹And the Lord spoke all these words: ²“I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, out of the house of servitude. ³You shall not have strange gods before me. ⁴You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor a likeness of anything that is in heaven above or on earth below, nor of those things which are in the waters under the earth. ⁵You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, ⁶and showing mercy to thousands of those who love me and keep my precepts.

¹After these things, a man from the house of Levi went out, and he took a wife from his own stock. ²And she conceived and bore a son. And seeing him to be handsome, she hid him for three months. ³And when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a small basket woven of bulrushes, and she smeared it with pitch as well as tar. And she placed the little infant inside, and she laid him in the sedges by the bank of the river. ⁴His sister was standing at a distance and was wondering what would happen. ⁵Then, behold, the daughter of Pharaoh descended to wash in the river. And her maids walked along the edge of the cove. And when she had seen the small basket among the papyruses, she sent one of her servants for it. And when it was brought, ⁶she opened it; and realizing that within it was a little one crying, she took pity on him, and she said: “This is one of the infants of the Hebrews.”

¹³You shall not murder.

¹⁴The Lord will fight on your behalf, and you will remain silent.”

¹And the Lord said to Moses: “Now you will see what I shall do to Pharaoh. For through a strong hand he will release them, and by a mighty hand he will cast them from his land.” ²And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “I am the Lord, ³who appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as Almighty God. And I did not reveal to them my name: ADONAI. ⁴And I formed a covenant with them, in order to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojourning, in which they were newcomers. ⁵I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, with which the Egyptians have oppressed them. And I have remembered my covenant. ⁶For this reason, say to the sons of Israel: I am the Lord who will lead you away from the work house of the Egyptians, and rescue you from servitude, and also redeem you with an exalted arm and great judgments.

¹³In your mercy, you have been a leader to the people whom you have redeemed. And in your strength, you have carried them to your holy dwelling place.

³⁴So then, there shall be a little golden bell and a pomegranate, and again another golden bell and a pomegranate.

¹³But the blood will be for you as a sign in the buildings where you will be. And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you. And the plague will not be with you to destroy, when I strike the land of Egypt.

²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,

¹Now Moses was pasturing the sheep of his father-in-law Jethro, a priest of Midian. And when he had driven the flock into the interior of the desert, he came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

¹⁴You shall not commit adultery.

¹The Lord also said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: ²“This month will be for you the beginning of the months. It will be first in the months of the year.