A.C. 1491. The ninth Journey-From Dophkak to Alush. NUMBERS XXXIII. VER. 13. 13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. The tenth Journey-From Alush to Rephidim. NUMBERS XXXIII. VER. 14. 14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at g Ex. xvii. 1. & Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. EXODUS XVII. 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 in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. 5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy h Ch. vii. 20. rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, i Num. xx. 9. 20. & cv. 41. and go. h 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock Ps. Ixxviii, 15, 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. Wisd, xi. 4. 1 Cor. x. 4. * That is, tentation. + That is, chiding, or, strife. k Deut. xxv. 7 And he called the name of the place * Massah, and + Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not? k 8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Re17. Wisd. xi. 3. phidim. 1 1 Called Jesus, 9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, Acts vii. 45. and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the A.C. 1491. top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel 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; 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. 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 14 Ånd the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for "I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from m Num. xxiv. under heaven. 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it * JEHOVAH-nissi : 20. 1 Sam. XV. 3. * That is, the LORD my banner. to the hand of 16 For he said, † Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation generation. The eleventh Journey-From Rephidim to Sinai. Giving of the Law. NUMBERS XXXIII. VER. 15. 15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the "wilderness of Sinai. EXODUS XIX. 1 The people come to Sinai. 3 God's message by Moses unto the people out of the mount. 8 The people's answer returned again. 10 The people are prepared against the third day. 12 The mountain must not be touched. 16 The fearful presence of God upon the mount. 1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. + Or, Because Amalek is against the throne of the LORD, therefore, &c. Heb. the hand upon the throne of the LORD. n Ex. xix. 1. 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called o Acts vii. 38. unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 P Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and p Deut. xxix. how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and 4 Deut. v. 2. A.C. 1491. keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: r Deut. x. 14. 1 Pet. ii. 9. г Ps. xxiv. 1. . 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. s Ch. xxiv. 3, 7. Deut. v. 27. & xxvi. 17. 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. 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. 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. 10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 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. 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up t Heb. xii. 20. into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: t 13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it Or, cornet. shall not live: when the trumpet 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 clothes 20. 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day come not at your wives. 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 ex 20 The glory of the Angel Jehovah, which was now seen, was the same as that in which he had frequently appeared: and it is by no means improbable (as his future appearance at the close of the present dispensation is uniformly described, as a manifestation of himself in a human form,) that he will again come in the same Schechinah, the glory of the Lord, as when he was then seen by the elders of Israel. Vide Mede's 15th Epistle, (Works, b. 4. p. 762.) on the great day of judgment.-Scott's Christian Life, 9th edit. folio, p. 526. Lowman on the Schechinah. ceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp A.C. 1491. trembled. 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. 18 And "mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, be- u Deut. iv. II. cause 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 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. 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. test. 21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, * charge* Heb.com the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. 22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. 23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai : for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. 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. 25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them. Promulgation of the Moral Law. EXODUS XX. 1 The ten commandments. 18 The people are afraid. 20 Moses comforteth them. 22 Idolatry is forbidden. 24 Of what sort the altar should be. 1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of + bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or 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 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; A.C. 1491. y Lev. xix. 12. Deut. v. 11. Matt. v. 33. z Ch. xxiii. 12. Ezek. xx. 12. & Luke xiii. 14. a Gen. ii. 2. b Deut. v. 16. Matt. xv. 4 Eph. vi. 2. c Matt. v. 21. d Rom. vii. 7. e Heb. xii. 18. f Deut. v. 24. & xviii. 16. 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 7 y 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. 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 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: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. b 12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD 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 neigh bour. 17 d Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. 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. 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 your faces, that ye sin not. 21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. 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. 23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. 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. |