After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cry for help rose up to God from their slavery.

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and would not let the people go.

The Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.”

For this time I will send all my plagues upon you yourself, your officials, and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Tomorrow at this time I will cause the heaviest hail to fall that has ever fallen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.

The time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

You shall keep this ordinance at its proper time from year to year.

Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you but decide every minor case themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves.

but recovers and walks around outside with the help of a staff, then the assailant shall be free of liability, except to pay for the loss of time and to arrange for full recovery.

The Annual Festivals

“Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me.

You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. “No one shall appear before me empty-handed.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

“You shall keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall rest.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.