Shemot, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation
of the children of Yisra'el 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 Mitzrayim. {16:2} The whole
congregation of the children of Yisra'el murmured against Moshe and
against Aharon in the wilderness; {16:3} and the children of Yisra'el
said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the
land of Mitzrayim, when we sat by the flesh-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 said the LORD to Moshe, "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} Moshe and Aharon said to all the children of Yisra'el, "At
evening, then you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from
the land of Mitzrayim; {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} Moshe 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} Moshe said to Aharon, "Tell all the
congregation of the children of Yisra'el, 'Come near before the LORD,
for he has heard your murmurings.'" {16:10} It happened, as Aharon
spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Yisra'el, that they
looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD
appeared in the cloud. {16:11} The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
{16:12} "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Yisra'el.
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 hoar-frost on the ground. {16:15} When
the children of Yisra'el saw it, they said one to another, "What is
it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moshe 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 omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall
you take it, every man for those who are in his tent." {16:17} The
children of Yisra'el 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} Moshe said to them, "Let no
one leave of it until the morning." {16:20} Notwithstanding they
didn't listen to Moshe, but some of them left of it until the morning,
and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moshe 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 Moshe.
{16:23} He said to them, "This is that which the LORD has spoken,
'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Shabbat 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 Moshe asked, and it
didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it. {16:25} Moshe
said, "Eat that today, for today is a Shabbat 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 Shabbat. 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 Moshe,
"How long do you refuse to keep my [1>]mitzvot[<1] and my laws?
{16:29} Behold, because the LORD has given you the Shabbat, 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 Yisra'el called the name of it Manna, and it
was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with
honey. {16:32} Moshe 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 Mitzrayim."
{16:33} Moshe said to Aharon, "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 Moshe, so Aharon laid it
up before the Testimony, to be kept. {16:35} The children of Yisra'el
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 Kana`an.
{16:36} Now an omer is the tenth part of an efah.
{17:1} All the congregation of the children of Yisra'el journeyed
from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the LORD's
[1>]mitzvah[<1], and encamped in Refidim; but there was no water for
the people to drink. {17:2} Therefore the people quarreled with Moshe,
and said, "Give us water to drink."
Moshe 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 Moshe, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of
Mitzrayim, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
{17:4} Moshe 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 Moshe, "Walk on before the people, and take
the Zakenim of Yisra'el 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 Horev. You shall strike the rock, and water
will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moshe did so in the
sight of the Zakenim of Yisra'el. {17:7} He called the name of the
place Massah, and Merivah, because the children of Yisra'el quarreled,
and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or
not?"
{17:8} Then `Amalek came and fought with Yisra'el in Refidim. {17:9}
Moshe said to Yehoshua, "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 Yehoshua did as Moshe had told him, and fought
with `Amalek; and Moshe, Aharon, and Hur went up to the top of the
hill. {17:11} It happened, when Moshe held up his hand, that Yisra'el
prevailed; and when he let down his hand, `Amalek prevailed. {17:12}
But Moshe#s hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under
him, and he sat on it. Aharon 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} Yehoshua defeated `Amalek and his people with
the edge of the sword. {17:14} The LORD said to Moshe, "Write this for
a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Yehoshua: that I
will utterly blot out the memory of `Amalek from under the sky."
{17:15} Moshe built an altar, and called the name of it the LORD our
Banner. {17:16} He said, "The LORD has sworn: 'The LORD will have war
with `Amalek from generation to generation.'"
{18:1} Now Yitro, the [1>]Kohen[<1] of Midyan, Moshe#s
father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moshe, and for
Yisra'el his people, how that the LORD had brought Yisra'el out of
Mitzrayim. {18:2} Yitro, Moshe#s father-in-law, received Tzipporah,
Moshe#s wife, after he had sent her away, {18:3} and her two sons. The
name of one son was Gershom, for Moshe said, "I have been a sojourner
in a foreign land". {18:4} The name of the other was Eli`ezer, for he
said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Par`oh's
sword." {18:5} Yitro, Moshe#s father-in-law, came with his sons and
his wife to Moshe into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the
Mountain of God. {18:6} He said to Moshe, I, your father-in-law Yitro,
have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her. {18:7}
Moshe 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} Moshe told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to
Par`oh and to the Mitzrim for Yisra'el's sake, all the hardships that
had come on them on the way, and how the LORD delivered them. {18:9}
Yitro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to
Yisra'el, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the
Mitzrim. {18:10} Yitro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered
you out of the hand of the Mitzrim, and out of the hand of Par`oh; who
has delivered the people from under the hand of the Mitzrim. {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} Yitro, Moshe#s
father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aharon
came with all of the Zakenim of Yisra'el, to eat bread with Moshe#s
father-in-law before God.
{18:13} It happened on the next day, that Moshe sat to judge the
people, and the people stood around Moshe from the morning to the
evening. {18:14} When Moshe#s 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} Moshe 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} Moshe#s 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 shalom."
{18:24} So Moshe listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did
all that he had said. {18:25} Moshe chose able men out of all
Yisra'el, 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
Moshe, but every small matter they judged themselves. {18:27} Moshe
let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:28} commandments
[1] {17:1} commandment
[1] {18:1} priest
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