of the wilderness there lay a small the Lord; to-day ye shall not fina round thing, as small as the hoar it in the field. frost on the ground: p 26 Six days ye shall gather it; t 15 And when the children of Is. but on the seventh day, which is the rael saw it, they said one to another, sabbath, in it there shall be none. It is manna : for they wist not whai c 27 [ And it came to pass, that it was. And Moses said unto them, there went out some of the people on This is the bread which the LORD the seventh day for to gaiber, and hath given you to eat. they found none. d 16 T This is the thing which the 38 And the LORD said unto MoLORD hath commanded, Gather of ses, How long refuse ye to keep my it every man according to his cating : commandments and my laws ? an omer for every man according to p 29 See, for that the Lord hath the number of your persons, take ye given you the sabbath, therefore he every man for them which are in his giveth you on the sixth day the tents. bread of two days : abide ye every 17 And the children of Israel did man in his place, let no man go out so, and gathered, some more, some of his place on the seventh day. less. 30 So the people rested on the m 18 And when they did mete it with seventh day. an omer, he that gathered much had 31 And ihe house of Israel called nothing over, and he that gathered the name thereof Manna : and it was little had no lack : they gathered like coriander-seed, white; and the every man according to his ealing. taste of it was like wafers made with 19 And Moses said, Le no man honey. leave of it till the morning. 32 And Moses said, This is the 20 Notwithstanding, they heark- thing which the LORD commandeth, ened not unto Moses, but some of Fill an omer of it to be kept for your them left of it until the morning, and generations; that they may see the it bred worms, and stank: and Mo- bread wherewith I have fed you in ses was wroth with them. the wilderness, when I brought you d 21 And they gathered it every forth from the land of Egypt. morning, every man according to 33 And Moses said unio Aaron, his eating : and when the sun wax. Take a pot, and put an omer full of ed hot it melted. manna therein, and lay it up before m 22 | And it came to pass, that on the Lord, to be kept for your genethe sixth day they gathered twice as rations. much bread, two omers for one man: d 34 As the LORD commanded Moand all the rulers of the congrega- ses, so Aaron laid it up before the tion came and told Moses. Testimony, to be kept. i 23 And he said unto them, This f 35 Anel the children of Ísrael did is that which the Lord hath said, eat mama forty years, until they To-morrow is the rest of the holy came to a land inhabited: they did sabbath unto the LORD : bake that eat manna, until they came unto the wbich ye will bake today, and seethe borders of the land of Canaan. that ye will seethe; and that which 36 Now an omer is the tenth part remaineth over, lay up for you to be of an ephah. kept until the morning. CHAP. XVII. m 24 And they laid it up till the g ND all the congregation of the morning, as Moses bade: and it did children of Israel journeyed not stink, peither was there any from the wilderness of Sin, after their Worm therein. journeys, according to the com25 And Moses said, nt that to-mandment of the LORD, and pitchday; for to-day is a sabua... into ed in Rephidim: and there was stone me. W no water for the people to drink. the one on the one side, and the c 2 Wherefore the people did chide other on the other side ; and his hands with Moses, and said, Give us wa- were steady until the going down ter that we may drink. And Moses of the sun. said unto them, Why chide ye with f 13 And Joshua discomfited Amame ! wherefore do ye tempt the lek and his people with the cdge of LORD? the sword. 1 3 And the people thirsied therer 14 And the Lord said unto Mofor water; and the people murmur- ses, Write this for a memorial in a ed against Moses, and said, Where- book, and rehearse it in the ears of tore is this thot thou hast brought Joshua : for I will utterly put out us up out of Egypt 10 kill us and the remembrance of Amalek from our children and our cattle with under heaven. ibirst. d 15 | And Moses built an altar, and f 4 And Moses cried unto the Lord, called the name of it JEHOVAHsaying, What shall I do unto this nissi : people ? they be almost ready to 16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have 5 And the Lord said unto Moses, war with Amalek from generation Go on before the people, and take to generation. with thee of the elders of Israel: and CHAP XVIII. thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the THEN Jethro the priest of river, take in thine hand, and gro. Midjan, Moses' father-inm 6 Behold, I will stand before thee law, heard of all that God had done there upon the rock in Horeb; and for Moses, and for Israel his people, thou shalt smite the rock, and there and that the LORD had brought Isshall come water out of it, that the rael out of Egypt : people may drink. And Moses did 2 Then Jethro, Moses' father-inso in the sight of the elders of Israel. law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, & 7 And he called the name of the after he bad sent her back, place Massah, and Meribah. he. 3 And her two sons; of which the cause of the chiding of the children name of the one was Gershom; (for of Israel, and because they teminted he said, I have been an alien in a the Lord, saving, Is the LORD strange land :) omong us, or not? 4. And the name of the other vas g 3 ? Then came Amalek, and Eliezer; (for the God of iny father, fought with Israel in Repliidim. suid he, was my help, and delivered f* 9 And Moses said unto Joshua, ine from the sword of Pharaoh :) Choose us out men, and go out, ligbí 5 And Jethro, Moses' father-inwith Amalek : 10-morrow I will stand law, caine with his sons and his wife on the top of the hill with the rod of unto Moses into the wilderness, where God in my band. he encampel at the mount of God : 10 So Joshua did as Moses had 6 And he said unto Moses, I thy said to him, and fought with Ana- father-in-law Jethro am come unto lek: and Moses, Aaroi), and Hur, thee, and thy wife, and her two sons went up to the top of the bill. with her. 11 And it came to pass, when d 7 11 And Moses went out to meet Moses held up his hand, that Israel his father-in-law, and did obeisance, prevailed: om when he let down and kissed him: and they asked his hand, Amalek prevailed. each other of their welfare : and they d 12 Bui Moses' hands were heavy: came into the tent. and they took a stone, and put it 8 And Moses told his father-in-law under him, and be sat thereon: and all that the Lord had done unto Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, Pharaoh, and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that people to God-ward, that thou mayhad come upon them by the way, and est bring the causes unto God : how the Lord delivered them. d 20 And thou shalt teach them orc 9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the dinances and laws, and shalt shew goodness which the Lord had done them the way wherein they must to Israel, whom he had delivered walk, and the work that they must do. out of the hand of the Egyptians. d 21 Moreover, thou shalt provide 10 And Jerbro said, Blessed be out of all the people, able men, such the LORD, who hath delivered you as fear God, men of truth, hating out of the hand of the Egyptians, and covetousness; and place such over out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath them to be rulers of thousands, ond delivered the people from under the rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, hand of the Egyptians. and rulers of tens : t 11 Now I know that the Lord is 22 And let them judge the peogreater than all gods : for in the ple at all seasons : and it shall be, thing wberein they dealt proudly, he that every great matter they shall was above them. bring unto thee, but every small matd 12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-ler they shall judge : so shall it be law, took a burnt-offering and sa. easier for thyselt, and they shall bear crifices for God: and Aaroa came, the burden with thee. and all the elders of Israel to eai d 23 If thou shalt do this thing, and bread with Moses' father-in-law be. God command thee so, then thou fore God. shalt be able to endure, and all this f 13 1 And it came to pass on the people shall also go to their place in morrow, that Moses sat to judge the peace. people : and the people stood by Mo-1) 24 So Moses hearkened to the ses from the morning unto the even- voice of his father-in-law, and did ing. all that he had said. 14 And when Moses' father-in-law 25 And Moses chose able men out saw all that he did to the people, he of all Israel, and made them heads said, What is this thing that thou over the people, rulers of thousands, doest to the people? Why sittest rulers of hundreds, rulers of fisties, thou thyself alone, and all the people and rulers of tens. stand by thee from morning unto 26 And they judged the people at even? all seasons: the hard causes they d 15 And Moses said unto his father- brought unto Moses, but every small in-law, Because the people come matter they judged themselves. unto me to inquire of God: 27 And Moses let bis father-in-law 16 When they have a matter, they depart: and he went his way into come unto me, and I judge between bis own laud. one and another, and I do make them CHAP. XIX. . dren of Israel gone 17 And Moses' father-in-law said out of the land of Egypt, the same unto him, The thing that thou doest day came they into the wilderness of is not good. Sinai. 18 Thou wilt surely wear away, g 2 For they were departed from both thou, and this people that is Rephidim, and were come to the with thee : for this thing is too heavy desert of Sinai, and had pitched in for thee; thou art not able to per the wilderness, and there Israel enform it thyself alone. camped before the mount. 19 Hearken now unto my voice, \ 31 And Moses went up unto God, I will give thee counsel. and God and the LORD called unto him out shall be with thee: Be thou for the of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt know the statutes of God, and his Intele birdsment boeremobbe forila thou say to the house of Jacob, 15 And he said unto the people, and tell the children of Israel: Be ready against the third day : 4 Ye have seen what I did unto come not at your wives. the Egyptians, and how I bare you s 16 | And it came to pass on the on eagles' wings, and brought you 'third day in the morning, that there unto myself. were thunders and lighunings, and a b 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey thick cloud upon the mount, and the my voice indeed, and keep my co-voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; venant, then ye shall be a peculiar so that all the people that wus in the treasure unto me above all people : camp trembled. for all the earth is mine : 17 And Moses brought forth the 6 And ye shall be unto me a king-people out of the camp to meet with dom of priests, and a holy nation. God; and they stood' at the nether These are the words which thou shalt part of the mount. speak unto the children of Israel. $ 18 And mount Sinai was altoge97 And Moses came and called ther on a smoke, because the LORD for the elders of the people, and laid descended upon it in fire: and the before their faces all these words smoke thereof ascended as the smoke which the LORD commanded him. of a furnace, and the whole mount c 8 And all the people answered 10-quaked greatly. gether, and said, all that the Lord 19 And when the voice of the hath spoken we will do. And Mo- trumpet sounded long, and waxed ses returned the words of the people louder and louder, Moses spake, and unto the LORD. God answered him by a voice. 9 And the Lord said unto Moses, 20 And the Lord came down Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, upon mount Sinai, on the top of the that the people may hear when I mount: avd the LORD called Moses speak with thee, and believe thee for up to the top of the mount; and Mo And Moses told the words of ses went up. the people unto the LORD. 21 And the Lord said unto Mo. d 10 T 'And the Lord said unto Mo- ses, Go down, charge the people, lest ses, Go unto the people, and sancti- they break through unto the LORD fy them to-day and io-morrow, and to gaze, and many of them perish. let them wash their clothes, d 22 And let the priests also which 11 And be ready against the third come near to the Lord, sanctify day: for the third day the LORD themselves, test the Lord break forth will come down in the sight of all the upon them. people upon mount Sinai. 23 And Moses said unto the LORD, P 12 T And thou shalt set bounds The people cannot come up to mount unto the people round about, saying, Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ije go Set bounds about the mount, and not up into the mount, or touch the sanctify it. border of it: whosoever toucheth the 24 And the Lord said unto him, mount shall be surely put to death : Away, get thee down, and thou shalt 13 There shall not a band touch come up, thou, and Aaron with thee : it, but he shall surely be stoned or but let not the priests and the people shot through : whether it be beast or break through, to come up unto the man, it shall not live : when the trum- Lorn, lest he break forth upon them. pet soundeth long, they shall come 25 So Moses went down unto the up to the mount. people, and spake unto them. 14 And Moses went down from CHIAP. XX the mount unto the people, and sancof tified the people; and they washed ND God spake allthese words, A saying. their clothes. t 2 I am ihe LORD thy God, whicle? ever. have brought thee out of the land of c 18 (And all the people saw the Egypt, out of the house of bondage. thunderings, and the lighuningy and p* 3 Thou shalt have no other gods the noise of the trumpet, and the before me. mountain smoking : and when the p* 4 Thou shalt not make unto the people saw it, they removed, and any graven image, or any likeness stood afar off. of any thing that is in heaven above, c 19 And they said unto Moses, or that is in the earth beneath, or Speak thou with us, and we will that is in the water under the earth : hear: but let not God speak with us, 5 Thou shalt not bow down thy- lest we die. self to them, nor serve them: for I 20 And Moses said unto the peothe LORD thy God am a jealous God, ple, Fear not : for God is come to visiting the iniquity of the fathers up- prove you, and that his fear may be on the children unto the third and before your faces, that ye sin not. fourth generation of them that hate s 21 Ånd the people siood afar oft, me; and Moses drew near unto the thick 6 And shewing mercy unto thou- darkness where God was, sands of them that love me, and keep 22 And the LORD said unto Momy commandments. ses, Thus thou shalt say unto the chilp* 7 Thou shalt not take the name dren of Israel ; Ye have seen that of the LORD thy God in vain : for the I have talked with you from heaven. LORD will not hold him guiltless that p 23 Ye shall not make with me taketh his name in vain. gods of silver, neither shall ye make d* 8 Remember the sabbath-day to unto you gods of gold. keep it holy. b 24 ( An altar of earth thou shalt 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and make unto me, and sbalt sacrifice do all thy work : thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy 10 But the seventh day is the sab- peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine bath of the LORD thy God: in it thou oxen : in all places where I record shall not do any work, thou, nor thy my name I will come unto thee, and son, nor thy daughter, thy man-ser- I will bless thee. vant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy 25 And if thou wilt make me an alcaule, nor thy stranger thai is with tar of stone, thou shalt not build it of in thy gates: hewn stone, for if thou lift up thy tool 11 For in six days the LORD made upon it, thou hast polluted it. heaven and earth, the sea and all that p 26 Neither shalt thou go up by in them is, and 'rested the seventh steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedday: wherefore the Lord blessed ness be not discovered thereon. the sabbath-day, and hallowed it. CHAP. XXI. the shalt set before them. TOW are mothers that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy 1. 2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, God giveth thee. six years he shall serve : and in the p 13 Thou shalt not kill. seventh he shall go out free for nop* 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. thing. p* 15 Thou shalt not steal. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall p* 16 Thou shalt not bear false wit- go out by himself: if he were married, ness against thy neighbour. then his wife shall go out with him. p* 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neigh- 4 If his master have given him a bour's house, thou shall not covet wife, and she have borne him sons or thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-ser- daughters, the wife and her children vant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, shall be her master's, and he shall nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy go out by himself. neighbour's. 5 [ And if the servant shall plain |