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Exodus 16, World English Bible |
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Exodus, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation
of the children of Israel came to 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. {16:2} The whole
congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
against Aaron in the wilderness; {16:3} and the children of Israel
said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the
land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of
bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this
whole assembly with hunger."
{16:4} Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from
the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's
portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my
law, or not. {16:5} It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they
shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much
as they gather daily."
{16:6} Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At
evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the
land of Egypt; {16:7} and in the morning, then you shall see the glory
of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are
we, that you murmur against us?" {16:8} Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall
give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to
satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur
against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but
against Yahweh." {16:9} Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the
congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for
he has heard your murmurings.'" {16:10} It happened, as Aaron spoke to
the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked
toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the
cloud. {16:11} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {16:12} "I have heard
the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At
evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled
with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"
{16:13} It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the
camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. {16:14} When the
dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a
small round thing, small as the frost on the ground. {16:15} When the
children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For
they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread
which Yahweh has given you to eat." {16:16} This is the thing which
Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating;
an [1>]omer[<1] a head, according to the number of your persons, you
shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent." {16:17} The
children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. {16:18}
When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing
over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man
according to his eating. {16:19} Moses said to them, "Let no one leave
of it until the morning." {16:20} Notwithstanding they didn't listen
to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred
worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them. {16:21} They
gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When
the sun grew hot, it melted. {16:22} It happened that 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. {16:23} He said to
them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn
rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and
boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for
yourselves to be kept until the morning.'" {16:24} They laid it up
until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither
was there any worm in it. {16:25} Moses said, "Eat that today, for
today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the
field. {16:26} Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is
the Sabbath. In it there shall be none." {16:27} It happened on the
seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they
found none. {16:28} Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to
keep my commandments and my laws? {16:29} Behold, because Yahweh has
given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the
bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of
his place on the seventh day." {16:30} So the people rested on the
seventh day.
{16:31} The house of Israel called its name [2>]Manna,[<2] and it
was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with
honey. {16:32} Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has
commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your
generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'" {16:33}
Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it,
and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."
{16:34} As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the
Testimony, to be kept. {16:35} The children of Israel ate the manna
forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna
until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. {16:36} Now an
omer is the tenth part of an [3>]ephah.[<3]
{17:1} All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from
the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's
commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the
people to drink. {17:2} Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and
said, "Give us water to drink."
Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test
Yahweh?"
{17:3} The people were thirsty for water there; and the people
murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
{17:4} Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these
people? They are almost ready to stone me."
{17:5} Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take
the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with
which you struck the Nile, and go. {17:6} Behold, I will stand before
you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water
will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the
sight of the elders of Israel. {17:7} He called the name of the place
[4>]Massah,[<4] and [5>]Meribah,[<5] because the children of Israel
quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among
us, or not?"
{17:8} Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. {17:9}
Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with
Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in
my hand." {17:10} So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with
Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
{17:11} It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel
prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. {17:12}
But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under
him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the
one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until
sunset. {17:13} Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of
the sword. {17:14} Yahweh 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 memory of Amalek from under the sky." {17:15} Moses built
an altar, and called its name [6>]Yahweh our Banner.[<6] {17:16} He
said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation.'"
{18:1} Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard
of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how
that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt. {18:2} Jethro, Moses'
father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her
away, {18:3} and her two sons. The name of one son was
[7>]Gershom,[<7] for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a
foreign land". {18:4} The name of the other was [8>]Eliezer,[<8] for
he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's
sword." {18:5} Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and
his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the
Mountain of God. {18:6} He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law
Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.
{18:7} Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed
him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the
tent. {18:8} Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to
Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that
had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them. {18:9}
Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel,
in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
{18:10} Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of
the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has
delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. {18:11} Now
I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in
which they dealt arrogantly against them." {18:12} Jethro, Moses'
father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron
came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses'
father-in-law before God.
{18:13} It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the
people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the
evening. {18:14} When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the
people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why
do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to
evening?"
{18:15} Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to
me to inquire of God. {18:16} When they have a matter, they come to
me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know
the statutes of God, and his laws." {18:17} Moses' father-in-law said
to him, "The thing that you do is not good. {18:18} You will surely
wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing
is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
{18:19} Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be
with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to
God. {18:20} You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall
show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must
do. {18:21} Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men,
such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such
over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens. {18:22} Let them judge the people at all
times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you,
but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be
easier for you, and they shall share the load with you. {18:23} If you
will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to
endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."
{18:24} So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did
all that he had said. {18:25} Moses chose able men out of all Israel,
and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. {18:26} They judged
the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but
every small matter they judged themselves. {18:27} Moses let his
father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:16} An omer is about 2.2 litres or about 2.3 quarts
[2] {16:31} "Manna" means "What is it?"
[3] {16:36} 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel
[4] {17:7} Massah means testing.
[5] {17:7} Meribah means quarreling.
[6] {17:15} Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi
[7] {18:3} "Gershom" sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."
[8] {18:4} Eliezer means "God is my helper."
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