“Don’t supply the people with the straw they need to make bricks like you did before. Let them go out and gather the straw for themselves.

So the people spread out all through the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

They gathered them together in big piles, and the land began to stink.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I’m going to make bread rain down from the sky for you. The people will go out each day and gather just enough for that day. In this way, I’ll test them to see whether or not they follow my Instruction.

Every morning they gathered it, as much as each person could eat. But when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

Six days you will gather it. But on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be nothing to gather.”

On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather bread, but they found nothing.

Sabbaths and festivals

For six years you should plant crops on your land and gather in its produce.

Observe the Harvest Festival for the early produce of your crops that you planted in the field, and the Gathering Festival at the end of the year, when you gather your crop of fruit from the field.

Worshipping the gold bull calf

The people saw that Moses was taking a long time to come down from the mountain. They gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come on! Make us gods who can lead us. As for this man Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t have a clue what has happened to him.”

So Moses stood at the camp’s gate and said, “Whoever is on the Lord’s side, come to me!” All the Levites gathered around him.

You should observe the Festival of Weeks, for the early produce of the wheat harvest, and the Gathering Festival at the end of the year.

Moses gathered together the whole Israelite community and said to them: These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do: