Manna to be kept as a Memorial. Water from the Rock at Rephidim. War with Amalek. Jethro meets Moses for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. 30 So the people rested on the seventh day. a fch. 16. 1 ch. 19. 2; Num. 20. 2, í ch. 16. 8 • ch. 7. 20 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof 1 Manna: and it was like 'coriander seed, ch. 14. 11; white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 32 And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. ch. 3. 1 33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept throughout 34 your generations. As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. 36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. 17 e 9 Dt. 8. 15; * Num. 20. 8 " Num. 24. 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. 7 And he called the name of the place r Massah, and ** Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not? 3r 8 Then came "Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, ch. 3. 16, 18 fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. 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. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Is-\\\ rael prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; 20; Dt. 25. and Aaron and Hur stayed 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. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: 'that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 15 And Moses built an daltar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi; 16 and he said, 9Jehovah hath sworn: Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. 17-19 ver. 1 * ch. 24. 13 b ch. 24. 4; d ch. 24. 4 * Gen. 22. 14 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Jehovah, and encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? where- Gen. 22. 16 fore do ye tempt Jehovah? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against 9 ch. 2. 18; Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and 'our cattle with thirst? 4 And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me. 5 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pass on before the people, ch. 2. 22; and take with thee of "the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith "thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. 6 Behold, I 3. 1 h ch. 2. 21; 4. 20; Acts 7.29 8e 18 13 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-inlaw, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2 And Jethro, Moses' father-inlaw, took "Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, 3 and her two sons; of whom the name 3 That is, Tempting, or, Proving. 4 That is, Chiding, or, Strife. Heb. prostrated. 6 Or, the book 7 Or, for 9 Or, Because there is a hand against the throne of Jehovah Heb. A hand is lifted up upon the throne of Jah. Jethro counsels Moses to appoint assistant Judges. Israel at Sinai of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land: 4 and the name of the other was Eliezer; for he said, "The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. 5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of God: 6 and he said unto Moses, I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. 7 And Moses went out to meet his fatherin-law, and did obeisance, and 'kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent. 8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how Jehovah delivered them. 9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10 And Jethro said, 'Blessed be Jehovah, 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. 11 Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them. 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. 13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood about Moses from the morning unto the evening. 14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even? 15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God: 16 when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between a man and his a ch. 2. 22 b Gen. 49. 25 ech. 3. 1, 12; 4. 27; 24.13 d Gen. 43. 26, 28 Ex. 4. 27 / Gen. 43. 27 ch. 4. 23; 7.4, 5 ▲ Num. 20. 14; Neh. 9. 32 k Is. 63. 7-14 11 K. 8. 56; Ps. 68. 19, 20 m ch. 12. 12; 15. 11 " ch. 24. 5; Gen. 31. 54 Gen. 25. 22; 27.5; P Dt. 1. 12 9 Dt. 1. 18 r ver. 25; Dt. 1. 13, 1-5 neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. 17 And Moses' father-in-law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. 18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it ch. 15. 6, 16 thyself alone. 19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee: be thou for the people to Godward, and bring thou the causes unto God: 20 and thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people "able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating 15; Ps. 15. unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 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 themselves: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee. 23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace. 24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. 25 And Moses chose table 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. 26 And they judged the people at all seasons: "the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 27 And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land. Dt. 1. 17, 18 t ver. 21 26 ver. 22 "In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount. 3 And Moses went up Moses meets Jehovah in the Mount. The People warned not to approach the Mount. The Ten Commandments given a Dt. 32. 11 Ps. 78. 10 14. 2 ⚫ ch. 9. 29 9; Rev. 1. 6; 5. 10 ich. 4. 31; unto God, and Jehovah called : m 1 24. 3, 7: ch. 24. 16, 7 Gen. 35. 2; Num. 8. 7 19. 19; ver. 16 • vér. 17 19 lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp 1 Pet. 2. 5, trembled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the hch. 4. 29, 30 nether part of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19 And when the voice of the trumpet waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. 20" And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the Ps. 104. 32; top of the mount; and Moses went 21 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish. 22 And let the *priests also, that come near to Jehovah, sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth upon them. 23 And Moses said unto Jehovah, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou didst charge us, saying, "Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. 24 And Jehovah said unto him, Go, 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 Jehovah, lest he break forth upon them. 25 So Moses went down unto the people, and told them. 144.5 " Dt. 5. 4; 1 S. 6. 19 21. 6-8 y ver. 12 * ch. 24. 1 7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Jehovah commanded him. 8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that Jehovah hath spoken we will do. And Moses reported the words of the people unto Jehovah. 9 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in * a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto Jehovah. 10 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them 'wash their garments, 11 and be ready against the third day; for the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. 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: 13 no hand shall touch him, but "he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, he shall not live: when the trumpet & Lev. 26. 1; soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. 14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their garments. 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman. b ch. 15. 13, 5. 6; 7. 8 ver. 23; ch. Dt. 4. 15- e ch. 23. 24 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a ch. 34. 14;jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me, 5 Or, besides me Dt. 4. 24 4 Heb. bondmen. The Ten Commandments. The People terrified. Laws concerning Idols and Altars; concerning Servants 6 and showing lovingkindness unto 14 thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. a Dt. 7. 9 b Lev. 19. 12; Dt. 6. 13; 10. 20 c ch. 23. 12; 31. 15 7 Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; ford ch. 34. 21; Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 35. 2, 3 * ch. 31. 17; Gen. 2. 2, 3 / Lev. 19. 3; Mt. 15. 4; 19. 19; Eph. 6. 2 Dt. 5. 16, 33; 6. 2; 11. 9 Mt. 19. 18 Lev. 20. 10; Mt. 19. 18 k ch. 21. 16; 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in itch. 21. 12; thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. e 12 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, Lev. 19. 11, 13; Mt. 19 18 1 ch. 23. 1, 7; Mt. 19. 18 Lev. 19. 18 "Rom. 7.7; 13. 9 ch. 19. 16, P Dt. 5. 5, 23 27; Heb. 2 ch. 14. 13 ch. 15. 25 Dt. 4. 10; 6. 24 t ch. 19. 16; Dt. 5. 22 " Dt. 4. oxen: silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you. 24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy "peaceofferings, thy sheep, and thine in every place where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee. 25 And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered there 2 If thou buy a Hebrew *servant, six years he shall serve and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master give him a wife, and she 36; 5. 24, 26; bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 5 But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: 6 then his master shall bring him unto God, and Neh. 9. 13 * ver. 3 Dt. 29. 17 y ch. 27. 1-8 2 ch. 10. 25; 18. 12 a ch. 24. 5 b Dt. 12. 5; 26.2 nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything Dt. 27. 6,6 shall bring him to the door, or that is thy neighbor's. 18 And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they *trembled, and stood afar off. 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 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not. 21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. 22 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye yourselves have seen that "I have talked with you from heaven. 23 Ye shall not make other gods with me; gods of 7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a 7maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. 8 If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. 11 And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money, 12 He that smiteth a man, so 4 Or, cause my name to be remembered 5 Or, bondman 7 Or, bondwoman 6 Or, the judges 8 Another reading is, so that he hath not espoused her. 9 Heb. flesh. Laws concerning Crimes of Violence; Damage done by or to Beasts; Restitution for Trespass 10-34; b1 K. 2. 2834 that he dieth, shall surely be put to death. 13 a And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay Mt. 15. 4; him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. © Dt. 24. 7 Mk. 7. 10; Lev. 20. 9; Dt. 27. 16 • Lev. 25. 44-46 was wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30 If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. 31 Whether 15 And he that smiteth his Lev. 24.19; it have gored a son, or have gored father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 And he that 'curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 18 And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed; 19 if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. 2 20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: "for he is his money. Dt. 19. 21 9 Mt. 5. 38 ▲ Gen. 9. 5 a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. 32 If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given unto their master thirty 12; Mt. 26. shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. i Zech. 11. 15 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein, 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner thereof, and the dead beast shall be his. 35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide. 36 Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own. [*Ch. 21, 37 in* * 2 Sam. 12. *22 If a man shall steal an 22 And if men strive together, ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or and hurt a woman with child, so sell it; he shall pay five oxen for that her fruit depart, and yet no an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. harm follow; he shall be surely [*Ch. 22. 1 in 2. If the thief be found breaking fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. 28 And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, "the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 29 But if the ox 1 Or, revileth 2 Heb, his sitting or ceasing. 3 Or, his bondman, or his bondwoman 8 Heb.] * 4 in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4 If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall pay double. 5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. 6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. * Heb. blood, |