rael went on dry land in the midst of the sea. what are we, that ye murmur against us? & 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 that the LORD heareth your murmurings 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye which ye murmur against him and what to the LORD, for he hath triumphed glorious-are we? your murmurings are not against us, ly; the horse and his rider hath he thrown but against the LORD. 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. into the sea. 99 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say un22 So Moses brought Israel from the to all the congregation of the children of IsRed sea: and they went out into the wilder-rael, Come near before the LORD: for he ness of Shur: and they went three days in hath heard your murmurings. the wilderness, and found no water. 10 And it raine to pass, as Aaron spake 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. 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel; speak unto them, saying, At even 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. 23¶ And when they came to arah, the could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, 13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his 14 And when the dew that lay was gone statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness thee, which I have brought upon the Egyp-there lay a small round thing, as small as the tians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee. hoar frost, on the ground. 27¶ And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. CHAP. XVI. journey from Elim; 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. ND A 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. 2 And the whole congregatica of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 16 This 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 them which are in his tents. 17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. 18 And when they did mete it with an omer, 3 And the children of Israel said unto he that gathered much had nothing over, and them, Would to God we had died by the he that gathered little had no lack: they gahand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, thered every man according to his eating. when we sat by the flesh-pots, and when we 19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it did eat bread to the full! for ye have brought till the morning us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole 20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not assembly with hunger. unto Moses; but some of them left of it until 4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Be-the morning, and it bred worms, and stank : old, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and Moses was wroth with them. and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. 21 And they gathered it every morning; every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. 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. 6And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt. 7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and 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. 23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To-morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD. bake that which ye will bake to-day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you, to be kept until the morning. 24 And they laid it up till the morning, Eoses bade; and it did not stink, neither upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite as there any worm therein. 25 And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for --day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to-day e shall not find it in the field. 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 26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding eventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD hall be none. 27 And it came to pass, that there went among us, or not? ut some of the people on the seventh day or to gather, and they found none. 28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How ong refuse ye to keep my commandments nd my laws? 9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: 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, 29 See, for that the LORD hath given you he sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the ixth day the bread of two days abide ye every man in his place; let no man go out and Hur, went up to the top of the bill. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held of his place on the seventh day. 30 So the people rested on the seventh day. Jup his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when 31 And the house of Israel called the name he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they hereof Manna: and it was like corianderseed, white; and the taste of it was like wa-took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up fers made with honey. 32 1 And Moses said, This is the thing his hands, the one on the one side, and the which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer other on the other side; and his hands were of it, to be kept for your generations; that steady until the going down of the sun. they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 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. 14 ¶ And 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 under heaven. 34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited: they did eat manna until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. 8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAH-nissi 16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." CHAP. XVIII. WHEN Jethro, the priest of Midian, Mo of God CHAP. XVII. had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; AND all the congregation of the children 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 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, 3 And her two sons, of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer 2 Wherefore the people did chide with Mo-been an alien in a strange land: ses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why for the God of my father, said he, was ming chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. the LORD? 36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. • 5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and with his sons and his wife unto Moses into said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought the wilderness, where he encamped at the us up out of Egypt to kill us, and our chil-mount of God: dren, and our cattle, with thirst? 6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, in-law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy What shall I do unto this people? they be wife, and her two sons with her. 7 And Moses went out to meet his fatheralmost ready to stone me. 5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on be-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; fore the people, and take with thee of the el-and they asked each other of their welfare: ders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou and they came into the tent. smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. 8 And Moses told his father-in-law al that 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there the LORD had done unto Pharaoh, and to the 56 Egyptians, for Israel's sake, and all the tra- rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, ruvail that had come upon them by the way, lers of fifties, and rulers of tens. and how the LORD delivered them. 26 And they judged the people at all sea9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the good-sons: the hard causes they brought unto ness which the LORD had done to Israel, Moses, but every small matter they judged whom he had delivered out of the hand of the themselves. Egyptians. 27 And Moses let his father-in-law de10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, part; and he went his way into his own land. who hath delivered you out of the hand of CHAP. XIX. the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pha-N the third month, when the children of delivered the people from Israel were gone out of the land under the hand of the Egyptians. Egypt, the same day came they into the wil11 Now I know that the LORD is greater derness of Sinai. than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above 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. 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Isfael encamped before the mount. 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; 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyp tians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 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 peo 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. 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 by thee from morning unto even? ple: for all the earth is mine. 15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God. 16 When they have a matter they come unto me, and I judge between one and another; and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. 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. 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. 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 this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. 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 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: 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. 20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes. they must do. 10 T And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and 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 ple round about, saying, Take heed to yourof hundreds,rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. selves, that ye go not up into the mount, or 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 peo 22 And let them judge the people at all touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth seasons and it shall be, that every great the mount shall be surely put to death: matter they shall bring unto thee, but every 13 There shall not an hand touch it, but small matter they shall judge: so shall it be he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; easier for thyself, and they shall bear the bur-whether it be beast or man, it shall not live. den with thee. 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. 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 3年 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. 24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made then pads over the people, and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceed- and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and ing loud; so that all the people that was in rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD the camp trembled. blessed the sabbath-day, and hallowed it. 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, 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. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing 20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the that is thy neighbour's. LORD called Moses up to the top of the 18 And all the people saw the thunder mount; and Moses went up. ings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the 21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and down, charge the people, lest they break when the people saw it, they removed, and through unto the LORD to gaze, and many stood afar off. of them perish. 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou 22 And let the priests also, which come with us, and we will hear: but let not God near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest speak with us, lest we die. the LORD break forth upon them. 20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: The for God is come to prove you, and that his for 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 And Moses said unto the LORD, people cannot come up to mount Sinai 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. CHAP. XX. 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 burntofferings, 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. 3¶Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any gra-| ven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth be- for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast neath, or that is in the water under the earth: polluted it. 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discoa jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fa- vered thereon. thers upon the children unto the third and fourth CHAP. XXI. of them that 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of Now these are the judgments which thou them that love me, and keep my command shalt set before Α' 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. ments. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 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. 8 Remember the sabbath-day, to keep holy. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. it 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daugh- love my master, my wife, and my children, ter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, I will not go out free: nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is with- 6 Then his master shall bring him unto in thy gates: the judges; he shall also bring him to the 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: door, or unto the door-post: and his master stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but shall bore his ear through with an awl; and the owner of the ox shall be quit. ue shall serve him for ever. 29 But if the ox were wont to push wito 7 ¶ And if a man sell his daughter to be his horn in time past, and it hath been tesa maid-servant, she shall not go out as the tified to his owner, and he hath not kept men-servants do. him in, but that he hath killed a man or a 8 If she please not her master, who hath woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his betrothed her to himself, then shall he let owner also shall be put to death. her be redeemed to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judg ment shall it be done unto him. 10 If he take him another wife; her food, ber raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. 11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money. 32 If the ox shall push a man-servant, or maid-servant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 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 ap-good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his. 121 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will point thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come presumptuously up on his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. 35¶ And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide. 15 And he that smiteth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not 16 And he that stealeth a man, and sell-kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, eth him, or if he be found in his hand, he and the dead shall be his own. shall surely be to death. CHAP. XXII. 17 And he that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. 18 T And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth 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. kill it, or sell it, he shall restore five oxen Fa man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft 20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money. 5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall 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. 22 T If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband 6 ¶ If fire break out and catch in thorns, will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the so that the stacks of corn, or the standing judges determine. corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make ¡restitution. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for nand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 7 ¶ If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep. and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double. 26 ¶ And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; be shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. 27 And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake." 9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which anot 28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die; then the ox shall be surely challengeth to be his, the cause of boy 4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; be shall restore double. |