Bible in one year 4/15/2022 Exodus Chapter 16 –20
By Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce
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Chapter 16 The complaint
about hunger; the manna
1 And they took their
journey from Elim, 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
congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the
wilderness:
3 And the children of
Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the
land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the
full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole
assembly with hunger.
4 Then said the LORD
unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; 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.
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.
6 And 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 what are we, that ye murmur against us?
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 And Moses spake unto
Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near
before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
16 This is the 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, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that
gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let
no man leave of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding
they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning,
and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered
it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed
hot, it melted.
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, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any
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 Six days ye shall
gather it; 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 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 it was like coriander seed, white;
and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
32 And Moses said,
This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for
your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
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.
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.
36 Now an omer is the
tenth part of an ephah.
Chapter 17 The complaint
about lack of water; The Defeat of Amalek
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 rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and
go.
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 people may drink. And Moses did so
in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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?
8 Then came Amalek,
and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said unto
Joshua, 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.
10 So Joshua did as
Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went
up to the 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 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.
15 And Moses built an
altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
16 For he said,
Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation.
Chapter 18 The Division of
Responsibility; Moses’ father –in law Jethro advice
1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian,
Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel
his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
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 been an alien in a strange
land:
4 And the name of the other was
Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me
from the sword of Pharaoh:
5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law,
came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he
encamped at the mount of God:
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.
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 they came into the tent.
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.
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the
goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the
hand of the Egyptians.
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
greater 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.
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?
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.
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.
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:
20 And thou shalt teach them
ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and
the work that they must do.
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
of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
22 And let them judge the people at
all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto
thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for
thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
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 them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
26 And they judged the people at all
seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they
judged themselves.
27 And Moses let his father in law
depart; and he went his way into his own land.
Chapter 19 Israel at
Sinai: Revelation; the giving of the Law
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.
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 Egyptians, 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 people: for all the earth is mine:
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.
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 into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount
shall be surely put to death:
13 There shall not an
hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be
beast or man, it 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.
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 exceeding loud; so
that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
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.
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.
21 And the LORD said
unto Moses, Go down, charge 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.
Chapter 20 The Ten
Commandments
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;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands
of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
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
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.
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 neighbour.
17 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.
25 And if thou wilt make me an altar
of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool
upon it, thou hast polluted it.
26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps
unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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