At a camping place on the way to Egypt, the LORD met Moses and tried to kill him.

(SEE 4:25)

The LORD said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast---eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.

For seven days no yeast must be found in your houses, for if anyone, native-born or foreign, eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people."

Whoever makes any like it or uses any of it on anyone who is not a priest will no longer be considered one of my people.' "

If anyone makes any like it for use as perfume, he will no longer be considered one of my people."

but if any of you who are not clean eat it, you shall no longer be considered one of God's people.

Also, if you eat the meat of this offering after you have touched anything ritually unclean, whether from a person or an animal, you shall no longer be considered one of God's people.

Anyone who eats the fat of an animal that may be offered as a food offering to the LORD will no longer be considered one of God's people.

Anyone who breaks this law will no longer be considered one of God's people.

You know that whoever does any of these disgusting things will no longer be considered one of God's people.

Any who eat it will be guilty of treating as ordinary what is dedicated to me, and they will no longer be considered my people.

But any who sin deliberately, whether they are natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating the LORD with contempt, and they shall be put to death,

because they have rejected what the LORD said and have deliberately broken one of his commands. They are responsible for their own death.

Then the LORD told Joshua, "Make some knives out of flint and circumcise the Israelites."

When the people of Israel left Egypt, all the males were already circumcised. However, during the forty years the people spent crossing the desert, none of the baby boys had been circumcised. Also, by the end of that time all the men who were of fighting age when they left Egypt had died because they had disobeyed the LORD. Just as he had sworn, they were not allowed to see the rich and fertile land that he had promised their ancestors.

(SEE 5:4)

After the circumcision was completed, the whole nation stayed in the camp until the wounds had healed.

While the Israelites were camping at Gilgal on the plain near Jericho, they observed Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.

The manna stopped falling then, and the Israelites no longer had any. From that time on they ate food grown in Canaan.

My former companion attacked his friends; he broke his promises.

The people have defiled the earth by breaking God's laws and by violating the covenant he made to last forever.

The highways are so dangerous that no one travels on them. Treaties are broken and agreements are violated. No one is respected any more.

They have gone back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to do what I said; they have worshiped other gods. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant that I made with their ancestors.

It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them, they did not keep that covenant.

It follows that if one of you eats the Lord's bread or drinks from his cup in a way that dishonors him, you are guilty of sin against the Lord's body and blood.

For if you do not recognize the meaning of the Lord's body when you eat the bread and drink from the cup, you bring judgment on yourself as you eat and drink.