EXODUS 16

16:1 ¶ And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto 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 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
16:3 And the children of Israel said unto them, "Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and when we ate bread to the full! For ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may put them to the proof, whether they will walk in My law, or no.
16:5 And it shall come to pass that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."
16:6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, "At evening, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;
16:7 and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD, for He heareth your murmurings against the LORD. And what are we, that ye murmur against us?"
16:8 And Moses said, "This shall be when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread to the full, for the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against Him. And what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD."
16:9 And Moses spoke unto Aaron, "Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, `Come near before the LORD, for He hath heard your murmurings.'"
16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke unto 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 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
16:12 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak unto them, saying, `At evening ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.'"
16:13 ¶ And it came to pass that at evening the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
16:14 And when the dew that lay had gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoarfrost on the ground.
16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is this?" For they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, "This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
16:16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded: `Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons. Take ye every man for those who are in his tents.'"
16:17 And the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less.
16:18 And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
16:19 And Moses said, "Let no man leave any of it until the morning."
16:20 Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left part of it until the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was wroth with them.
16:21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating; and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
16:22 ¶ And it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
16:23 And he said unto them, "This is that which the LORD hath said: `Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the LORD. Bake that which ye will bake today, and boil what ye will boil; and that which remaineth over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"
16:24 And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses bade; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
16:25 And Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath unto the LORD. Today ye shall not find it in the field.
16:26 Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none."
16:27 And it came to pass that there went out some of the people on the seventh day to gather, and they found none.
16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, "How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws?
16:29 See, for the LORD hath given you the Sabbath; therefore He giveth you on the sixth day the bread for two days. Abide ye every man in his place. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day."
16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
16:32 ¶ And Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD commandeth: `Fill an omer with it to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"
16:33 And Moses said unto Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD to be kept for your generations."
16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the testimony, to be kept.
16:35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited. They ate manna until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
16:36 Now an omer is a tenth part of an ephah.

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EXODUS 17

17:1 ¶ And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the Wilderness of Sin after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched camp in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink.
17:2 Therefore the people chided Moses and said, "Give us water that we may drink." And Moses said unto them, "Why chide ye me? Why do ye tempt the LORD?"
17:3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses and said, "Why is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?"
17:4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, "What shall I do unto this people? They are almost ready to stone me!"
17:5 And the LORD said unto Moses, "Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod with which thou smotest the river, take in thine hand and go.
17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
17:7 And he called the name of the place Massah that is, Temptation, and Meribah that is, Chiding, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"
17:8 ¶ Then came Amalek and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, "Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand."
17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
17:11 And it came to pass, 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 thereon. And Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
17:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and recount it in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven."
17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi that is, The LORD my banner;
17:16 for he said, "Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation."

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EXODUS 18

18:1 ¶ When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt,
18:2 then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after Moses had sent her back
18:3 and her two sons (of whom the name of the one was Gershom that is, A stranger there, for he said, "I have been an alien in a strange land";
18:4 and the name of the other was Eliezer that is, My God is a help, "For the God of my father," said he, "was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh");
18:5 and Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God.
18:6 And he said unto Moses, "I, thy father-in-law Jethro, have come unto thee and thy wife and her two sons with her."
18:7 ¶ And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
18:8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.
18:9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
18:10 And Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods; for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly, He was above them."
18:12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
18:13 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.
18:14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, "What is this thing that thou doest for the people? Why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto evening?"
18:15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law, "Because the people come unto me to inquire of God.
18:16 When they have a matter, they come unto me, and I judge between one and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and His laws."
18:17 And Moses' father-in-law said unto him, "The thing that thou doest is not good.
18:18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people who are with thee. For this thing is too heavy for thee. Thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
18:19 Hearken now unto my voice! I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to Godward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God.
18:20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk and the work that they must do.
18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God--men of truth, hating covetousness--and place such over them to be rulers of thousands and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens.
18:22 And let them judge the people at all seasons; and it shall be that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge. So shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
18:23 If thou shalt do this thing and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace."
18:24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
18:25 And 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 And they judged the people at all seasons. The hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
18:27 And Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

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EXODUS 19

19:1 ¶ In the third month after the children of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the Wilderness of Sinai.
19:2 For they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the desert of Sinai and had pitched camp in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, "Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
19:4 `Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you unto Myself.
19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
19:6 And ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel."
19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
19:8 And all the people answered together and said, "All that the LORD hath spoken we will do." And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
19:9 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever." And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, "Go unto the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes
19:11 and be ready against the third day; for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai.
19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, `Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount or touch the border of it. Whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death.
19:13 There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live.' When the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount."
19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
19:15 And he said unto the people, "Be ready against the third day. Come not at your wives."
19:16 ¶ And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.
19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
19:18 And Mount Sinai was altogether in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
19:20 And the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mount; and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount, and Moses went up.
19:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, "Go down. Charge the people, lest they break through to gaze unto the LORD, and many of them perish.
19:22 And let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them."
19:23 And Moses said unto the LORD, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for Thou charged us, saying, `Set bounds about the mount and sanctify it.'"
19:24 And the LORD said unto him, "Away! Get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee; but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest He break forth upon them."
19:25 So Moses went down unto the people and spoke unto them.

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EXODUS 20

20:1 ¶ And God spoke all these words, saying:
20:2 "I am the LORD thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
20:3 "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
20:4 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me,
20:6 and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me and keep My commandments.
20:7 "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.
20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
20:9 Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work;
20:10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
20:12 ¶ "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
20:13 "Thou shalt not kill.
20:14 "Thou shalt not commit adultery.
20:15 "Thou shalt not steal.
20:16 "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's."
20:18 ¶ And all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off.
20:19 And they said unto Moses, "Speak thou with us and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die."
20:20 And Moses said unto the people, "Fear not; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not."
20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
20:22 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel: `Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
20:23 Ye shall not make with Me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
20:24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings, thy sheep and thine oxen. In all places where I record My name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
20:25 And if thou wilt make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
20:26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.'

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