Thursday in Season after Pentecost

19Verse 19. As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain. 20Verse 20. Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it. 21Verse 21. “What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?” 22Verse 22. “Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil. 23Verse 23. They told me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!’ 24Verse 24. So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!” 25Verse 25. Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies. 26Verse 26. So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.

33Verse 33. And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!” 34Verse 34. So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing. 35Verse 35. Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing. 36Verse 36. And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians. 37Verse 37. The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children. 38Verse 38. And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds. 39Verse 39. Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves. 40Verse 40. Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years. 41Verse 41. At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt. 42Verse 42. Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.