23 He replied to me: "Go, gather the people and say to them that they shouldn’t seek you for forty days.
24 Gather up many writing tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, who are trained to write fast.
25 Come here, and I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding. It won’t be extinguished until you have written everything down.
26 When you are finished, you will make some things public, others you will transmit secretly to the wise. You will begin to write tomorrow at this time."
27 I did as he commanded me. I gathered all the people and said,
28 "Hear these words, Israel.
29 At first our fathers lived as strangers in Egypt, and they were liberated from there.