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Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”
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Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.”
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But Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?”
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But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
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But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not. Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere,
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hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
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Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said to them. “The Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
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(The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom.
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When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts.
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No! Have only the men go and worship the Lord, since that’s what you have been asking for.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence.
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Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.
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Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the Lord your God to take this deadly plague away from me.”
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The Song of Moses and Miriam
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.
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Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.”
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Manna and Quail
The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.
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Water From the Rock
The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
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At Mount Sinai
On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai.
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After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.
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and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
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Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.
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The Lord descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up
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Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”
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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,
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Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”
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but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
