your murmurings against the LORD: and what 8 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 which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD. 9 And Moses said unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your 10 murmurings. And it came 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 I appeared in the cloud. And the LORD spake 12 unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, 'At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the 1Heb. morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye two evenings. 13 shall know that I am the LORD your God. And

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it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the 14 dew lay round about the camp. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small 'round thing, small as 2 Or, flake 15 the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they wist not what it was. And 3 Or, It is Moses said unto them, It is the bread which the Heb. Man hu. 16 LORD hath given you to eat. This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them which are 17 in his tent. And the children of Israel did so, 18 and gathered some more, some less. And when

they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered

manna

1 Heb. Man.

much had nothing over, and he that gathered
little had no lack; they gathered every man
according to his eating. And Moses said unto 19
them, Let no man leave of it till the morn-
ing. Notwithstanding they hearkened not 20
unto Moses; but some of them left of it until
the morning, and it bred worms, and stank :
and Moses was wroth with them. And they 21
gathered it morning by morning, every man
according to his eating: and when the sun
waxed hot, it melted. And it came to pass, that 22
on the sixth day they gathered twice as much
bread, two omers for each one: and all the
rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
And he said unto them, This is that which 23
the LORD hath spoken, To-morrow is a solemn
rest, a holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that
which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye
will seethe; and all that remaineth over lay up
for you to be kept until the morning. And they 24
laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and
it did not stink, neither was there any worm
therein. And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for 25
to-day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to-day
ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye 26
shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the
sabbath, in it there shall be none. And it came 27
to pass on the seventh day, that there went out
some of the people for to gather, and they
found none.
And the LORD said unto Moses, 28
How long refuse ye to keep my commandments
and my laws? See, for that the LORD hath given 29
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. So the people 30
rested on the seventh day. And the house of 31
Israel called the name thereof 'Manna: and

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it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the 33 land of Egypt. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be 34 kept for your generations. As the LORD com

manded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the 35 Testimony, to be kept. 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 36 land of Canaan. Now an omer is the tenth

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part of an ephah.

And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their 'journeys, according to the command- Or, stages ment of the LORD, and pitched 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 3 me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle 4 with thirst? And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. And the LORD said unto Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take 6 in thine hand, and go. Behold, I will stand

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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. And he called the name of the place 7 Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving Tempting, or, of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

1 That is,

Proving.

2 That is, Chiding, or, Strife.

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Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel 8 in Rephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, 9 Choose us out men, 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. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and 10 fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it 11 came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands 12 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. And Joshua 'discomfited 13 Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And the LORD said unto Moses, Write 14 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. And Moses built an altar, and called 15 the name of it 'Jehovah-nissi: and he said, 16 The LORD hath sworn: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' I 18 father in law, heard of all that God had done

2 Heb.

for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, 3 Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, and her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been 'a sojourner Heb. Ger. 4 in a strange land: and the name of the other See ch. ii. 22. was Eliezer; for he said, The God of my E, God, and father was my help, and delivered me from the ezer, help. 5 sword of Pharaoh: and Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, 6 at the mount of God: and he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, 7 and thy wife, and her two sons with her. And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came 8 into the tent. And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, 9 and how the LORD delivered them. And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, in that he had delivered 10 them out of the hand of the Egyptians. Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, 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 II the Egyptians. Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: yea, in the thing wherein 12 they dealt proudly against them. 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' 13 father in law before God. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge

And