and they believed. And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.

All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that I will leave.” Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.

then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent.

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Do not bow down before their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their sacred stones to pieces.

Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.

And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.

Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans.

They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’

Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.

And they made from pure gold the articles for the table—its plates and dishes and bowls and its pitchers for the pouring out of drink offerings.

They made all its utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans.