He said to Moses, "Get out of my sight! Don't let me ever see you again! On the day I do, you will die!"

"You are right," Moses answered. "You will never see me again."

Moses concluded by saying, "All your officials will come to me and bow down before me, and they will beg me to take all my people and go away. After that, I will leave." Then in great anger Moses left the king.

You are to eat it quickly, for you are to be dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your walking stick in your hand. It is the Passover Festival to honor me, the LORD.

The Israelites set out on foot from Rameses for Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men, not counting women and children.

They baked unleavened bread from the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for they had been driven out of Egypt so suddenly that they did not have time to get their food ready or to prepare leavened dough.

On the day the 430 years ended, all the tribes of the LORD's people left Egypt.

When the king of Egypt let the people go, God did not take them by the road that goes up the coast to Philistia, although it was the shortest way. God thought, "I do not want the people to change their minds and return to Egypt when they see that they are going to have to fight."

Moses took the body of Joseph with him, as Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly promise to do. Joseph had said, "When God rescues you, you must carry my body with you from this place."

During the day the LORD went in front of them in a pillar of cloud to show them the way, and during the night he went in front of them in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel night and day.

The man answered, "Who made you our ruler and judge? Are you going to kill me just as you killed that Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and said to himself, "People have found out what I have done."

When the king heard about what had happened, he tried to have Moses killed, but Moses fled and went to live in the land of Midian. One day, when Moses was sitting by a well, seven daughters of Jethro, the priest of Midian, came to draw water and fill the troughs for their father's sheep and goats.

While Moses was still in Midian, the LORD said to him, "Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead."

When the Israelites saw the king and his army marching against them, they were terrified and cried out to the LORD for help.

Didn't we tell you before we left that this would happen? We told you to leave us alone and let us go on being slaves of the Egyptians. It would be better to be slaves there than to die here in the desert."

Abraham was patient, and so he received what God had promised.

Remember how it was with you in the past. In those days, after God's light had shone on you, you suffered many things, yet were not defeated by the struggle.

Think of what he went through; how he put up with so much hatred from sinners! So do not let yourselves become discouraged and give up.

Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.

But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.

But it does not sink deep into them, and they don't last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once.

Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.

Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.

We call them happy because they endured. You have heard of Job's patience, and you know how the Lord provided for him in the end. For the Lord is full of mercy and compassion.

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.

It was in faith that all these persons died. They did not receive the things God had promised, but from a long way off they saw them and welcomed them, and admitted openly that they were foreigners and refugees on earth.

Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God's throne.

I am always aware of the LORD's presence; he is near, and nothing can shake me.

For David said about him, 'I saw the Lord before me at all times; he is near me, and I will not be troubled.

For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever.

To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the only God---to him be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

He alone is immortal; he lives in the light that no one can approach. No one has ever seen him; no one can ever see him. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.

You love him, although you have not seen him, and you believe in him, although you do not now see him. So you rejoice with a great and glorious joy which words cannot express,