8 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 T And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of Num. 16. 16. the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings. m See 1 Sam. o ver. 7. p ver. 8. q ver. 6. r ver. 7. m n 10 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 ° ° appeared in the cloud. 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 12 PI 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. 13 And it came to pass, that at even 8 Num. 12. 31. the quails came up, and covered the camp and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. Ps. 78. 27, 28. & 105. 40. t Num. 11. 9. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay "a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. X 15 And when the children of Israel Ꭹ No manna on the sabbath. not unto Moses; but some of them B. C. 1491. 21 And they gathered it every morn- а a Gen. 2. 3. 24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade and it did not stink, neither was there any b ver. 20. worm therein. 25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field. 26 c Six days ye shall gather it; | c ch. 20. 9, 10. but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. 27 ¶ And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. 28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my 42 Kings 17. commandments and my laws? 29 See, for that the LORD hath given 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. 30 So the people rested on the seventh day. 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and eit was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. d 14. e Num. 11. 7, 8. 32 T And Moses said, This is the 17 And the children of Israel did so, The people murmur. B. C. 1491. h Num. 33. 38. Neh. 9. 20, 21. i Josh. 5. 12. a ch. 16. 1. Num. 33. 12, 14. b Num.20.3, 4. c Deut. 6. 16. e ch. 14. 15. f 1 Sam. 30. 6. John 8. 59. & 10. 31. g Ez. 2. 6. h ch. 7. 20. Num. 20. 8. 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. 36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. CHAPTER XVII. The people murmur for water at Rephidim. 5 God sendeth them for water to the rock in Horeb. 8 a Amalek is overcome. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; B. C. 1491. 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 And the LORD said unto Moses, AND all the congregation of the Write this for a memorial in a book, p ch. 34. 27. 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. d and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua : 15 And Moses built an altar, and nissi : q Num. 24. 20. Deut. 25. 19. 1 Sam. 15. 3, 7. & 30. 1. 17. 2 Sam. 8. 12. Ezra 9. 14. Jehovah- That is, The LORD banner. my 16 For he said, "Because the LORD | Or, Because hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. CHAPTER XVIII. 2 b Wherefore the people did chide | stone me. h 5. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. i 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the k Num. 20. 13. people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. i Num. 20. 10, 11. Ps. 78. 15, 20. & 105. 41. & 114. 8. 1 Cor. 10. 4. Ps. 81. 7. & Temptation. k 7 And he called the name of the That is, 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? That is, Chiding, or, Strife. the hand of Amalek is against the throne of the LORD, therefore,&c. † Heb. the hand upon the throne of the LORD. a ch. 2. 16. & 3. 1. b Ps. 44. 1. & 77. 14. 15. & 78. 4. & 105. 5, 43. & 106. 2, 8. c ch. 4. 26. d Acts 7. 29. e ch. 2. 22. 3 And her two sons; of which the e name of the one was Gershom; for || That is, A he said, I have been an alien in a strange land : stranger there. 6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. God is a help. f ch. 3. 1, 12. g Gen. 14. 17. & 18.2.& 19. 1. 1 Kings 2. 19. h Gen. 29. 13. & 33. 4. 7 ¶ 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 † Heb. peace, they came into the tent. 11 And it came to pass, when Mo-† ses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them. i 9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done i Gen. 43. 27. 2 Sam. 11. 7. Jethro counselleth Moses. B. C. 1491. k Gen. 14. 20. 12 Chr. 2. 5. Ps. 95. 3. & to Israel, whom he had delivered out for thyself, and they shall bear the B. C. 1491. k 10 And 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 the Egyptians. 11 Now I know that the LORD is 1 greater than all gods: m for in the 97.9. & 135.5. thing wherein they dealt "proudly he was above them. m ch. 1. 10, 16, 22. & 5.2, 7. & 14. 8, 18. n 1 Sam. 2. 3. 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. 13 ↑ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the 1 Cor. 10. 18, people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening. 21, 31. p Lev. 24. 12. Num. 15. 34. q ch. 23. 7. & 24. 14. Deut. 17. 8. 2 Sam. 15. 3. 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 morning even? I then from mond onto his father in Idren of Israel were gone forth out 15 And Moses said law, Because the people come unto of the land of Egypt, the same day 16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between tone and another, and I do make and his fel- them know the statutes of God, and his laws. a 30. came they into the wilderness of a Num. 33. 15. Sinai. 2 For they were departed from 'Reph-b ch. 17. 1, 8. idim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. c ch. 3. 1, 12. d ch. 20. 21. Acts 7. 38. e ch. 3. 4. f Deut. 29. 2. Is. 63. 9. h Deut. 5. 2. 1 Kings 8. 59. 1 Cor. 10. 26. 6 And ye shall be unto me a 'kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. 1 Deut. 33. 3. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 7 T 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. 22 And let them judge the people 1 Pet. 2.5, 9. m Lev. 20. 26. n ch. 24. 3, 7. Deut. 5. 27. 0 ch. 20. 21. & 24. 15, 16. Deut. 4. 11. Ps. 97. 2. God's fearful presence. B. C. 1491. p Deut. 4. 12, 36. John 12. 29, 30. q ch. 14. 31. r Lev. 11. 44, 45. Heb. 10. 22. 8 ver. 14. Gen. 35. 2. Lev. 15. 5. t ver. 16, 18. ch. 34. 5. Deut. 33. 2. u Heb. 12. 20. H Or, cornet. x ver. 16, 19. y ver. 10. z ver. 11. a 1 Sam.21.4,5. Zech. 7. 3. 1 Cor. 7. 5. b Ps. 77. 18. Heb.12.18,19. Rev. 4. 5. & 8. 5. & 11. 19. I c ver. 9. ch. 40. 34. 2 Chr. 5. 14. d Rev. 1. 10. & 4. 1. EXODUS. 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 swash their clothes, t 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 into the mount, or touch the border of it: "whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: The ten commandments. 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. CHAPTER XX. The ten commandments. 18 The people are afraid. 20 Moses comforteth them. 22 Idolatry is forbidden. 24 The manner of building an altar. B. C. 1491. r ver. 12. Josh. 3. 4. 13 There shall not a hand touch ND God spake all these words, a Deut. 5. 22. 17 And Moses brought forth the e Heb. 12. 21. people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. f Deut. 4. 10. 4 e Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of Deut. 4. 16. & 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 g ch. 34. 14. to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers h ch. 34. 7. upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the k ch. 23. 1. LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 1 8 m 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, Pnor 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. 12 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 13 14 S 23 And Moses said unto the LORD, tery. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adul Lev. 19. 12. Deut. 5. 11. 1 Mic. 6. 11. m ch. 31. 13, 14. Lev. 19. 3, 30. & 26. 2. Deut. 5. 12. n ch. 23. 12. & 31.15. & 34.21. Lev. 23. 3. Ez. 20. 12. Luke 13. 14. o Gen. 2. 2, 3. ch. 16. 26. p Neh. 13. 16, 17, 18, 19. q Gen. 2. 2. r ch. 23. 26. Lev. 19. 3. Deut. 5. 16. Jer. 35. 7, 18. Matt. 15. 4. Mark 7. 10. Luke 18. 20. Eph. 6. 2. s Deut. 5. 17. Matt. 5. 21. t Deut. 5. 18. Matt. 5. 27. |