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Exodus, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation
of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is
between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after
their departing out of the land of Egypt. {16:2} The whole
congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
against Aaron in the wilderness; {16:3} and the children of Israel
said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the
land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of
bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this
whole assembly with hunger."
{16:4} Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from
the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's
portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my
law, or not. {16:5} It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they
shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much
as they gather daily."
{16:6} Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At
evening, then you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from
the land of Egypt; {16:7} and in the morning, then you shall see the
glory of the LORD; because he hears your murmurings against the LORD.
Who are we, that you murmur against us?" {16:8} Moses said, "Now the
LORD shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning
bread to satisfy you; because the LORD hears your murmurings which you
murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against
us, but against the LORD." {16:9} Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the
congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before the LORD,
for he has heard your murmurings.'" {16:10} It happened, as Aaron
spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they
looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD
appeared in the cloud. {16:11} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
{16:12} "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak
to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning
you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am the LORD
your God.'"
{16:13} It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the
camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. {16:14} When the
dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a
small round thing, small as the frost on the ground. {16:15} When the
children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For
they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread
which the LORD has given you to eat." {16:16} This is the thing which
the LORD has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his
eating; an [1>]omer[<1] a head, according to the number of your
persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent."
{16:17} The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some
less. {16:18} When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much
had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They
gathered every man according to his eating. {16:19} Moses said to
them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning." {16:20}
Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of
it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses
was angry with them. {16:21} They gathered it morning by morning,
everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
{16:22} It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much
bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation
came and told Moses. {16:23} He said to them, "This is that which the
LORD has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the
LORD. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want
to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept
until the morning.'" {16:24} They laid it up until the morning, as
Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in
it. {16:25} Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the
LORD. Today you shall not find it in the field. {16:26} Six days you
shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there
shall be none." {16:27} It happened on the seventh day, that some of
the people went out to gather, and they found none. {16:28} The LORD
said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my
laws? {16:29} Behold, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath,
therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days.
Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the
seventh day." {16:30} So the people rested on the seventh day.
{16:31} The house of Israel called its name [2>]Manna,[<2] and it
was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with
honey. {16:32} Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD has
commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your
generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'" {16:33}
Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it,
and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your
generations." {16:34} As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up
before the Testimony, to be kept. {16:35} The children of Israel ate
the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate
the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
{16:36} Now an omer is the tenth part of an [3>]efah.[<3]
{17:1} All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from
the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the LORD's
commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the
people to drink. {17:2} Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and
said, "Give us water to drink."
Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the
LORD?"
{17:3} The people were thirsty for water there; and the people
murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
{17:4} Moses cried to the LORD, saying, "What shall I do with these
people? They are almost ready to stone me."
{17:5} The LORD said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take
the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with
which you struck the Nile, and go. {17:6} Behold, I will stand before
you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water
will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the
sight of the elders of Israel. {17:7} He called the name of the place
[4>]Massah,[<4] and [5>]Meribah,[<5] because the children of Israel
quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD
among us, or not?"
{17:8} Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. {17:9}
Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with
Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in
my hand." {17:10} So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with
Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
{17:11} It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel
prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. {17:12}
But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under
him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the
one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until
sunset. {17:13} Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of
the sword. {17:14} The LORD said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial
in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly
blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky." {17:15} Moses built
an altar, and called its name [6>]the LORD our Banner.[<6] {17:16} He
said, "The LORD has sworn: 'The LORD will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation.'"
{18:1} Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard
of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how
that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. {18:2} Jethro, Moses'
father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her
away, {18:3} and her two sons. The name of one son was
[7>]Gershom,[<7] for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a
foreign land". {18:4} The name of the other was [8>]Eliezer,[<8] for
he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's
sword." {18:5} Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and
his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the
Mountain of God. {18:6} He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law
Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her."
{18:7} Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and
kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into
the tent. {18:8} Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had
done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the
hardships that had come on them on the way, and how the LORD delivered
them. {18:9} Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had
done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the
Egyptians. {18:10} Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has
delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of
Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the
Egyptians. {18:11} Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods
because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."
{18:12} Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and
sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to
eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
{18:13} It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the
people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the
evening. {18:14} When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the
people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why
do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to
evening?"
{18:15} Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to
me to inquire of God. {18:16} When they have a matter, they come to
me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know
the statutes of God, and his laws." {18:17} Moses' father-in-law said
to him, "The thing that you do is not good. {18:18} You will surely
wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing
is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
{18:19} Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be
with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to
God. {18:20} You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall
show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must
do. {18:21} Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men,
such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such
over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens. {18:22} Let them judge the people at all
times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you,
but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be
easier for you, and they shall share the load with you. {18:23} If you
will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to
endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."
{18:24} So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did
all that he had said. {18:25} Moses chose able men out of all Israel,
and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. {18:26} They judged
the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but
every small matter they judged themselves. {18:27} Moses let his
father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:16} An omer is about 2.2 litres or about 2.3 quarts
[2] {16:31} "Manna" means "What is it?"
[3] {16:36} 1 efah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
[4] {17:7} Massah means testing.
[5] {17:7} Meribah means quarreling.
[6] {17:15} Hebrew, the LORD Nissi
[7] {18:3} "Gershom" sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."
[8] {18:4} Eliezer means "God is my helper."
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