mkjv - Exodus:15:22-18:27

mkjv@Exodus:15:22 @ And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

mkjv@Exodus:15:23 @ And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, because it [was] bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.

mkjv@Exodus:15:24 @ And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

mkjv@Exodus:15:25 @ And he cried to the LORD. And the LORD showed him a tree. And when he had cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a decree and a law for them, and there He tested them.

mkjv@Exodus:15:26 @ And he said, If you will carefully listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in His sight, and will give ear to His commandments, and keep all His laws, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I [am] the LORD who heals you.

mkjv@Exodus:15:27 @ And they came to Elim, where [there were] twelve wells of water, and seventy palm trees. And they camped there by the waters.

mkjv@Exodus:16:1 @ And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came into 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.

mkjv@Exodus:16:2 @ And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

mkjv@Exodus:16:3 @ And the sons of Israel said to them, O that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

mkjv@Exodus:16:4 @ Then the LORD said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain amount every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.

mkjv@Exodus:16:5 @ And on the sixth day it shall happen, they shall prepare what they bring in. And it shall be twice as much as they gather day by day.

mkjv@Exodus:16:6 @ And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, At evening, then you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt.

mkjv@Exodus:16:7 @ And in the morning, then you shall see the glory of the LORD. For He hears your murmurings against the LORD. And what [are] we, that you murmur against us?

mkjv@Exodus:16:8 @ And Moses said, You will see when the LORD shall give you flesh to eat in the evening and bread to the full in the morning, when the LORD hears your murmurings which you murmur against Him. And what are we? Your murmurings [are] not against us, but against the LORD.

mkjv@Exodus:16:9 @ And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, Come near before the LORD. For He has heard your murmurings.

mkjv@Exodus:16:10 @ And it happened as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, they turned toward the wilderness. And behold! The glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud!

mkjv@Exodus:16:11 @ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

mkjv@Exodus:16:12 @ I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, You shall eat flesh at evening, and in the morning you shall be filled [with] bread. And you shall know that I [am] the LORD your God.

mkjv@Exodus:16:13 @ And it happened at evening, the quails came up and covered the camp. And in the morning the dew lay all around the host.

mkjv@Exodus:16:14 @ And when the layer of dew had gone up, behold, [there was] a small round thing upon the face of the wilderness, small as the hoar-frost upon the ground.

mkjv@Exodus:16:15 @ And when the sons of Israel saw, they said each one to his brother, What [is] that? For they did not know what it [was]. And Moses said to them, This [is] the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

mkjv@Exodus:16:16 @ This [is] the thing which the LORD has commanded: Each man gather of it according to his eating, an omer for a head, according to the number of your souls. Each one shall take for those who [are] in his camp.

mkjv@Exodus:16:17 @ And the sons of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, and some less.

mkjv@Exodus:16:18 @ And when they measured with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little lacked nothing. They gathered each one according to his eating.

mkjv@Exodus:16:19 @ And Moses said, Let no man leave of it until the morning.

mkjv@Exodus:16:20 @ But they did not listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning. And it became rotten [with] maggots, and stank. And Moses was angry with them.

mkjv@Exodus:16:21 @ And they gathered it every morning, each man according to his eating. And when the sun became hot, it melted.

mkjv@Exodus:16:22 @ And it happened, on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

mkjv@Exodus:16:23 @ And he said to them, This [is that] which the LORD has said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake [today], and boil what you will boil. And that which remains over, lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

mkjv@Exodus:16:24 @ And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses said. And it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.

mkjv@Exodus:16:25 @ And Moses said, Eat that today. For today [is] a sabbath to the LORD. Today you shall not find it in the field.

mkjv@Exodus:16:26 @ Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

mkjv@Exodus:16:27 @ And it happened [some] of the people went out on the seventh day in order to gather. And they did not find [any].

mkjv@Exodus:16:28 @ And the LORD said to Moses, How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?

mkjv@Exodus:16:29 @ See, because the LORD has given you the sabbath, therefore He gives you the bread of two days on the sixth day. Each one stay in his place. Let not any one go out of his place on the seventh day.

mkjv@Exodus:16:30 @ So the people rested on the seventh day.

mkjv@Exodus:16:31 @ And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna. And it [was] like coriander seed, white. And the taste of it [was] like wafers with honey.

mkjv@Exodus:16:32 @ And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the LORD has commanded: Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations, so that you may see the bread with which I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.

mkjv@Exodus:16:33 @ And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.

mkjv@Exodus:16:34 @ As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

mkjv@Exodus:16:35 @ And the sons of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to a land in which people lived. They ate manna until they came into the borders of the land of Canaan.

mkjv@Exodus:16:36 @ And an omer [is] the tenth part of an ephah.

mkjv@Exodus:17:1 @ And all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the command of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim. And [there was] no water for the people to drink.

mkjv@Exodus:17:2 @ And the people wrangled with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you wrangle with me? Why do you tempt the LORD?

mkjv@Exodus:17:3 @ And the people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses and said, Why [is] this, [that] You brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?

mkjv@Exodus:17:4 @ And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, What shall I do to this people? They are almost ready to stone me.

mkjv@Exodus:17:5 @ And the LORD said to Moses, Go on in front of the people, and take with you the elders of Israel. And take your rod with which you struck the river, in your hand, and go.

mkjv@Exodus:17:6 @ Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb. And you shall smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

mkjv@Exodus:17:7 @ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the wrangling of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us or not?

mkjv@Exodus:17:8 @ Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

mkjv@Exodus:17:9 @ And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.

mkjv@Exodus:17:10 @ And 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.

mkjv@Exodus:17:11 @ And it happened when Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. And when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

mkjv@Exodus:17:12 @ But Moses' hands [became] heavy. And they took a stone and put [it] under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the going of the sun.

mkjv@Exodus:17:13 @ And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people by the mouth of the sword.

mkjv@Exodus:17:14 @ And the LORD said to Moses, Write this, a memorial in a book, and set [it] in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heavens.

mkjv@Exodus:17:15 @ And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah My Banner.

mkjv@Exodus:17:16 @ And he said, A hand [is] on the throne of the LORD; war is to the LORD with Amalek from generation to generation.

mkjv@Exodus:18:1 @ When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt,

mkjv@Exodus:18:2 @ then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

mkjv@Exodus:18:3 @ 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),

mkjv@Exodus:18:4 @ and the name of the other [was] Eliezer (for the God of my father, my help, delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.)

mkjv@Exodus:18:5 @ And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he camped at the mount of God.

mkjv@Exodus:18:6 @ And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you, and your wife and her two sons with her.

mkjv@Exodus:18:7 @ And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down to him, and kissed him. And they asked each other of [their] welfare. And they came into the tent.

mkjv@Exodus:18:8 @ And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and [how] the LORD delivered them.

mkjv@Exodus:18:9 @ 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.

mkjv@Exodus:18:10 @ And Jethro said, Blessed [be] the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

mkjv@Exodus:18:11 @ Now I know that Jehovah [is] greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they were proved against them.

mkjv@Exodus:18:12 @ 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.

mkjv@Exodus:18:13 @ And on the next day it happened that Moses sat to judge the people. And the people stood by Moses from the morning to the evening.

mkjv@Exodus:18:14 @ And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What [is] this thing which you do to the people? Why do you sit alone by yourself, and all the people stand by you from morning to evening?

mkjv@Exodus:18:15 @ And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

mkjv@Exodus:18:16 @ When they have a matter, they come to me. And I judge between one and another, and I make known the statutes of God and His laws.

mkjv@Exodus:18:17 @ And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that you do [is] not good.

mkjv@Exodus:18:18 @ You will surely wear away, both you and this people that [is] with you. For this thing [is] too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it alone.

mkjv@Exodus:18:19 @ Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you. You be for the people toward God, that you may bring the causes to God.

mkjv@Exodus:18:20 @ And you shall teach them ordinances and laws, and shall make them know the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

mkjv@Exodus:18:21 @ And you shall look 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.

mkjv@Exodus:18:22 @ And let them judge the people at all times. And it shall be, every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge. And make it easier for yourself, and they shall bear with you.

mkjv@Exodus:18:23 @ If you will do this thing, and God command you, then you shall be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

mkjv@Exodus:18:24 @ And Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

mkjv@Exodus:18:25 @ 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.

mkjv@Exodus:18:26 @ And they judged the people at all times. The hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

mkjv@Exodus:18:27 @ And Moses let his father-in-law depart. And he went his way into his own land.