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All the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt
Fear and dread shall fall upon them :

away.

Through the greatness of thine arm they shall be still as a stone;

Till thy people pass over, O Jehovah,

Till the people pass over whom thou hast purchased.
Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain
of thine inheritance,

The place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thyself to
dwell in,

The sanctuary, O Jehovah, which thine hands have established.

Jehovah shall reign for ever and ever."

For the horses of Pharaoh, with his chariots and with his horsemen, went into the sea, and Jehovah brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry ground in the midst of the sea.

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after 21 her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them,

"Sing ye to Jehovah, for he hath highly exalted himself; The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.". Then Moses led the Israelites away from the Red Sea; and they went out into the desert of Shur; and they jour23 neyed three days in the desert, and found no water. And

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when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore the name 24 of that place was called Marah [BITTERNESS]. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we 25 drink?" And he cried to Jehovah; and Jehovah shewed him a wood, which he cast into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There Jehovah made a statute and an ordi26 nance, and there he proved them, and said, "If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will bring none of the diseases upon thee, which I brought upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah who healeth thee."

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And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and seventy palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters. 1 CHAP. XVI.—And they journeyed from Elim; and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the desert

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of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Is- 2 rael murmured against Moses and Aaron in the desert; and the children of Israel said to them, "Oh that we had 3 died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full! for ye have brought us forth into this desert, to kill this whole assembly by famine." Then Jehovah said to Moses, "Lo, I will rain bread for you from the heavens; and the people shall go out and gather a certain portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or not. And on the sixth day they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily." And 6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “In the evening ye shall know that Jehovah hath brought you out from the land of Egypt, and in the morning ye shall see the 7 glory of Jehovah; since he hath heard your murmurings against Jehovah : for what are we that ye murmur against us?" And Moses said, "This shall be, when Jehovah shall s give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; since Jehovah hath heard your murmurings which ye murmur against him. For what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah." And Moses said to Aaron, "Say to all the congregation of 9 the children of Israel, 'Come near before Jehovah; for he hath heard your murmurings.' And it came to pass while 10 Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the desert, and, lo, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud. Now Jehovah 11 had spoken to Moses, saying, "I have heard the murmurings 12 of the children of Israel: speak to them saying, 'In the evening ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I Jehovah am your God.'" And it came to pass that in the evening the quails 13 came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a fall of dew round about the camp. And when the fall 14 of dew had gone off, lo, upon the face of the desert there lay something small and shining; small as the hoar frost on the earth. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said 15 one to another, "What is it?" for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them, "This is the bread which Jehovah giveth you to eat. This is what Jehovah hath 16

commanded. Gather of it, every one according to his eating; an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every one for those who are in his tent." 17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, 18 some less. And when they measured it with an omer, he that had gathered much had nothing over, and he that had gathered little had no want: they gathered every one ac19 cording to his eating. And Moses said, "Let no one leave 20 of it until the morning." Yet they hearkened not to Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred 21 worms, and stank; and Moses was angry with them. So they gathered it every morning, every one according to his 22 eating; and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. But it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers for each person. And all the rulers 23 of the congregation came and told Moses, and he said to them, "This is what Jehovah hath said, 'To-morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath to Jehovah: bake what ye will bake, and boil what ye will boil; and that which remaineth over 24 lay up for yourselves, to be kept until the morning.'

And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses commanded; 25 and it did not stink, nor was there any worm in it. And Moses said, "Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath to 26 Jehovah: to-day ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sab27 bath, there shall be none." And it came to pass that some

of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but 28 they found none. And Jehovah said to Moses, "How long 29 refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? See, because Jehovah hath appointed to 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 30 place on the seventh day." So the people rested on the 31 seventh day. And the house of Israel called the name of this food Manna: and it was like coriander-seed, white, and 32 its taste like a cake made with honey. And Moses said, "This is what Jehovah hath commanded, 'Fill an omer of it, to be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the desert, when I brought 33 you forth from the land of Egypt.' And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put in it a full omer of manna, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept throughout your 34 generations.' So Aaron laid it up before the testimonials,

to be kept as Jehovah commanded Moses. And the children 35 of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land they ate manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.-Now an omer is the tenth part of 36 an ephah.

CHAP. XVII.—And all the congregation of the children 1 of Israel journeyed from the desert of Sin, ordering their journies according to the commandment of Jehovah; and they pitched in Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. Wherefore the people contended with Mo- 2 ses, and said, "Give us water that we may drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do ye contend with me? Why do ye try Jehovah?" And the people thirsted there for 3 water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Wherefore hast thou thus brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst ?" And 4 Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, "What shall I do to this people? they are almost ready to stone me." And Jehovah 5 said to Moses, "Go on before the people, and take with thee some of the elders of Israel, and thy rod, with which_thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. Lo, I will 6 stand before thee there by the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Mas- 7 sah [TRIAL], and Meribah [CONTENTION], because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tried Jehovah, saying, "Is Jehovah among us, or not?"

Then came the Amalekites and fought with the Israelites 8 in Rephidim. And Moses said to Joshua, "Choose out men 9 for us, and go out to fight with the Amalekites: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill, with the rod of God in my hand." So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and 10 fought with the Amalekites, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass that 11 when Moses held up his hand, the Israelites prevailed; and when he let down his hand, the Amalekites prevailed. But 12 the hands of Moses were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it, 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. And Joshua discomfited the people of 13

14 Amalek and smote them with the edge of the sword.

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Jehovah 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 remembrance of the Amalekites from under 15 the heavens." And Moses built an altar, and called the 16 name of it Jehovah-nissi [JEHOVAH MY SIGNAL]: for he said, "It shall be known as a signal of the war which Jehovah will have with the Amalekites from generation to generation."

1 CHAP. XVIII.-When Jethro the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for his people, the Israelites, how Jehovah had 2 brought the Israelites out of Egypt, then Jethro, the fatherin-law of Moses, took Zipporah, the wife of Moses, after he 3 had sent her back, and her two sons (of whom the name of the one was Gershom [A STRANGER THERE]; for Moses said, 4 "I have been a stranger in a foreign land;" and the name of the other was Eliezer [GOD WILL HELP]; "For the God of my father, said he, has been my helper, and delivered me 5 from the sword of Pharaoh"); and Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the desert, where he was encamped by the mountain of God. 6 And he said to Moses, "I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come to thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her." 7 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed himself, and kissed him; and when they had asked each other s of their welfare they went into the tent. And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for the sake of the Israelites, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how Je9 hovah had delivered them. And Jethro rejoiced for all the good which Jehovah had done to the Israelites, whom he 10 had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. 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 11 Egyptians. Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods, for in the matter in which they had dealt proudly he 12 was above them." And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, brought a burnt-offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.