Gerlily - The story of Moses
Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son.
When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and
coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among
the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what
would happen to him. Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe,
and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among
the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. She opened it and saw the baby.
He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies,"
she said. Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of
the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?" "Yes, go," she answered. And the
girl went and got the baby's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this
baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and
nursed him. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and
he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water."
At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn
of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in
the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. Pharaoh and all his
officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud
wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead. During the
night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Up! Leave my people, you and
the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested. Take your flocks
and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me." The Egyptians urged the
people to hurry and leave the country. "For otherwise," they said, "we will all
die!" So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it
on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing. The Israelites did
as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and
for clothing. The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the
people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred
thousand men on foot, besides women and children. Many other people went up with
them, as well as large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds. With the
dough they had brought from Egypt, they baked cakes of unleavened bread.
The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did
not have time to prepare food for themselves........
Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel's army,
withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and
stood behind them, coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the
night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so
neither went near the other all night long. Then Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east
wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites
went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on
their left. The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots
and horsemen followed them into the sea. During the last watch of the night the
LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and
threw it into confusion. He made the wheels of their chariots come off so that
they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, "Let's get away from the
Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt." Then the LORD said to
Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over
the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen." Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were
fleeing toward it, and the LORD swept them into the sea. The water flowed
back and covered the chariots and horsemen--the entire army of Pharaoh that had
followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived. But the
Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their
right and on their left. That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the
Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. And when the
Israelites saw the great power the LORD displayed against the Egyptians, the
people feared the LORD and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.
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. So they quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us
water to drink." Moses replied, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the
LORD to the test?" But the people were thirsty for water there, and they
grumbled against Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make
us and our children and livestock die of thirst?" Then Moses cried out to the
LORD, "What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."
The LORD answered Moses, "Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the
elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile,
and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and
water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the
sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah and Meribah
because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, "Is
the LORD among us or not?"
And God spoke all these words:
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery."
"You shall have no other gods before me."
"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above
or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 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 fathers to the third and fourth generation of those
who hate me, but showing love to a thousand of those who love me and keep my
commandments."
"You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold
anyone guiltless who misuses his name."
"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do
all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you
shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant
or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six
days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and
made it holy."
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the
LORD your God is giving you."
"You shall not murder."
"You shall not commit adultery."
"You shall not steal."
"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor."
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's
wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that
belongs to your neighbor."
When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain,
they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods who will go before us.
As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has
happened to him." Aaron answered them, "Take off the gold earrings that your
wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me." So all
the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they
handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it
with a tool. Then they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up
out of Egypt." When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and
announced, "Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD." So the next day the
people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship
offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in
revelry.
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