Exodus:16-18
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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 .
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And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 :
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And the LORD spake unto Moses ,
saying ,
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And the children of Israel did so ,
and gathered ,
some more ,
some less .
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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 .
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And Moses said ,
Let no man leave of it till the morning .
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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 .
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And they gathered it every morning ,
every man according to his eating :
and when the sun waxed hot ,
it melted .
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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 .
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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 .
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And they laid it up till the morning ,
as Moses bade :
and it did not stink ,
neither was there any worm therein .
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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 .
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Six days ye shall gather it ;
but on the seventh day ,
which is the sabbath ,
in it there shall be none .
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And it came to pass ,
that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather ,
and they found none .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws ?
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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 .
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So the people rested on the seventh day .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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As the LORD commanded Moses ,
so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony ,
to be kept .
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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 .
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Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah .
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 ?
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And Moses cried unto the LORD ,
saying ,
What shall I do unto this people ?
they be almost ready to stone me .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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Then came Amalek ,
and fought with Israel in Rephidim .
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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 .
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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 .
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And it came to pass ,
when Moses held up his hand ,
that Israel prevailed :
and when he let down his hand ,
Amalek prevailed .
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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 .
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And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword .
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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 .
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And Moses built an altar ,
and called the name of it Jehovahnissi :
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For he said ,
Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation .
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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 ;
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Then Jethro ,
Moses '
father in law ,
took Zipporah ,
Moses '
wife ,
after he had sent her back ,
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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 :
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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 :
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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 :
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And he said unto Moses ,
I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee ,
and thy wife ,
and her two sons with her .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods :
for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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And Moses said unto his father in law ,
Because the people come unto me to enquire of God :
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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 .
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And Moses '
father in law said unto him ,
The thing that thou doest is not good .
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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 .
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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 :
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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 .
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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 :
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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 .
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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 .
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So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law ,
and did all that he had said .
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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 .
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And they judged the people at all seasons :
the hard causes they brought unto Moses ,
but every small matter they judged themselves .
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And Moses let his father in law depart ;
and he went his way into his own land .
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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 .
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