bes Exodus:15:22-18:27
bes@Exodus:15:22 @ So Moses brought up the children of Israel from the Red Sea, and brought them into the wilderness of Sur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water to drink.
bes@Exodus:15:23 @ and they came to Merrha, and could not drink of Merrha, for it was bitter; therefore he named the name of that place, Bitterness.
bes@Exodus:15:24 @ And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
bes@Exodus:15:25 @ And Moses cried to the Lord, and the Lord shewed him a tree, and he cast it into the water, and the water was sweetened: there he established to him ordinances and judgements, and there he proved him,
bes@Exodus:15:26 @ and said, If thou wilt indeed hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do things pleasing before him, and wilt hearken to his commands, and keep all his ordinances, no disease which I have brought upon the Egyptians will I bring upon thee, for I am the Lord thy God that heals thee.
bes@Exodus:15:27 @ And they came to Ælim, and there were there twelve fountains of water, and seventy stems of palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters.
bes@Exodus:16:1 @ And they departed from Ælim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Ælim and Sina; and on the fifteenth day, in the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt,
bes@Exodus:16:2 @ all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron.
bes@Exodus:16:3 @ And the children of Israel said to them, Would we had died smitten by the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, and ate bread to satiety! for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to slay all this congregation with hunger.
bes@Exodus:16:4 @ And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread upon you out of heaven: and the people shall go forth, and they shall gather their daily portion for the day, that I may try them whether they will walk in my law or not.
bes@Exodus:16:5 @ And it shall come to pass on the sixth day that they shall prepare whatsoever they have brought in, and it shall be double of what they shall have gathered for the day, daily.
bes@Exodus:16:6 @ And Moses and Aaron said to all the congregation of the children of Israel, At even ye shall know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt;
bes@Exodus:16:7 @ and in the morning ye shall see the glory of the Lord, inasmuch as he hears your murmuring against God; and who are we, that ye continue to murmur against us?
bes@Exodus:16:8 @ And Moses said, This shall be when the Lord gives you in the evening flesh to eat, and bread in the morning to satiety, because the Lord has heard your murmuring, which ye murmur against us: and what are we? for your murmuring is not against us, but against God.
bes@Exodus:16:9 @ And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before God; for he has heard your murmuring.
bes@Exodus:16:10 @ And when Aaron spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they turned toward the wilderness, then the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.
bes@Exodus:16:11 @ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
bes@Exodus:16:12 @ I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel: speak to them, saying, Towards evening ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be satisfied with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.
bes@Exodus:16:13 @ And it was evening, and quails came up and covered the camp:
bes@Exodus:16:14 @ in the morning it came to pass as the dew ceased round about the camp, that, behold, on the face of the wilderness was a small thing like white coriander seed, as frost upon the earth.
bes@Exodus:16:15 @ And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is this? for they knew not what it was; and Moses said to them,
bes@Exodus:16:16 @ This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. This is that which the Lord has appointed: gather of it each man for his family, a homer for each person, (note:)Gr. by the head(:note) according to the number of your souls, gather each of you with his fellow-lodgers.
bes@Exodus:16:17 @ And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some much and some less.
bes@Exodus:16:18 @ And having measured the homer full, (note:)2 Co strkjv@8:15.(:note) he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that had gathered less had no lack; each gathered i. e. just sufficient for according to the need of those who belonged to him.
bes@Exodus:16:19 @ And Moses said to them, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
bes@Exodus:16:20 @ But they did not hearken to Moses, but some left of it till the morning; and it bred worms and stank: and Moses was irritated with them.
bes@Exodus:16:21 @ And they gathered it every morning, each man what he needed, and when the sun waxed hot it melted.
bes@Exodus:16:22 @ And it came to pass on the sixth day, they gathered double what was needed, two homers for one man; and all the chiefs of the synagogue went in and reported it to Moses.
bes@Exodus:16:23 @ And Moses said to them, Is not this the word which the Lord spoke? To-morrow is the sabbath, a holy rest to the Lord: bake that ye will bake, and seethe that ye will seethe, and all that is over leave to be laid by for the morrow.
bes@Exodus:16:24 @ And they left of it till the morning, as Moses commanded them; and it stank not, neither was there a worm in it.
bes@Exodus:16:25 @ And Moses said, Eat that to-day, for to-day is a sabbath to the Lord: it shall not be found in the plain.
bes@Exodus:16:26 @ Six days ye shall gather it, and on the seventh day is a sabbath, for there shall be none on that day.
bes@Exodus:16:27 @ And it came to pass on the seventh day that some of the people went forth to gather, and found none.
bes@Exodus:16:28 @ And the Lord said to Moses, How long are ye unwilling to hearken to my commands and my law?
bes@Exodus:16:29 @ See, for the Lord has given you this day as the sabbath, therefore he has given you on the sixth day the bread of two days: ye shall sit each of you in your houses; let no one go forth from his place on the seventh day.
bes@Exodus:16:30 @ And the people kept sabbath on the seventh day.
bes@Exodus:16:31 @ And the children of Israel called the name of it Man; and it was as white coriander seed, and the taste of it as a wafer with honey.
bes@Exodus:16:32 @ And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Fill an homer with manna, to be laid up for your generations; that they may see the bread which ye ate in the wilderness, when the Lord led you forth out of the land of Egypt.
bes@Exodus:16:33 @ And Moses said to Aaron, Take a golden pot, and cast into it one full homer of manna; and thou shalt lay it up before God, to be kept for your generations,
bes@Exodus:16:34 @ as the Lord commanded Moses: and Aaron laid it up before the testimony to be kept.
bes@Exodus:16:35 @ And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the (note:)Gr. oikoumenhn(:note) land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phoenicia.
bes@Exodus:16:36 @ Now the homer was the tenth part of three measures.
bes@Exodus:17:1 @ And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the wilderness of Sin, according to their encampments, by the word of the Lord; and they encamped in Raphidin: and there was no water for the people to drink.
bes@Exodus:17:2 @ And the people reviled Moses, saying, Give us water, that we may drink; and Moses said to them, Why do ye revile me, and why tempt ye the Lord?
bes@Exodus:17:3 @ And the people thirsted there for water, and there the people murmured against Moses, saying, Why is this? hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to slay us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
bes@Exodus:17:4 @ And Moses cried to the Lord, saying, What shall I do to this people? yet a little while and they will stone me.
bes@Exodus:17:5 @ And the Lord said to Moses, Go before this people, and take to thyself of the elders of the people; and the rod with which thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and thou shalt go.
bes@Exodus:17:6 @ Behold, I stand there before thou come, on the rock in Choreb, and thou shalt smite the rock, and water shall come out from it, and the people shall drink. And Moses did so before the sons of Israel.
bes@Exodus:17:7 @ And he called the name of that place, Temptation, and Reviling, because of the reviling of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us or not?
bes@Exodus:17:8 @ And Amalec came and fought with Israel in Raphidin.
bes@Exodus:17:9 @ And Moses said to Joshua, Choose out for thyself mighty men, and go forth and set the army in array against Amalec to-morrow; and, behold, I shall stand on the top of the hill, and the rod of God will be in my hand.
bes@Exodus:17:10 @ And Joshua did as Moses said to him, and he went out and set the army in array against Amalec, and Moses and Aaron and Or went up to the top of the hill.
bes@Exodus:17:11 @ And it came to pass, when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hands, Amalec prevailed.
bes@Exodus:17:12 @ But the hands of Moses were heavy, and they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it; and Aaron and Or supported his hands one on this side and the other on that, and the hands of Moses were supported till the going down of the sun.
bes@Exodus:17:13 @ And Joshua routed Amalec and all his people with the slaughter of the sword.
bes@Exodus:17:14 @ And the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and (note:)Gr. give(:note) speak this in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the memorial of Amalec from Gr. the part under heaven under heaven.
bes@Exodus:17:15 @ And Moses built an altar to the Lord, and called the name of it, The Lord my Refuge.
bes@Exodus:17:16 @ For with a secret hand the Lord wages war upon Amalec to all generations.
bes@Exodus:18:1 @ And Jothor the priest of Madiam, the father-in-law of Moses, heard of all that the Lord did to his people Israel; for the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt.
bes@Exodus:18:2 @ And Jothor the father-in-law of Moses, took Sepphora the wife of Moses after she had been sent away,
bes@Exodus:18:3 @ and her two sons: the name of the one was Gersam, his father saying, I was a sojourner in a strange land; —
bes@Exodus:18:4 @ and the name of the second Eliezer, saying, For the God of my father is my helper, and he has rescued me out of the hand of Pharao.
bes@Exodus:18:5 @ And Jothor the father-in-law of Moses, and his sons and his wife, went forth to Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped on the mount of God.
bes@Exodus:18:6 @ And it was told Moses, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law Jothor is coming to thee, and thy wife and two sons with him.
bes@Exodus:18:7 @ And Moses went forth to meet his father-in-law, and did him reverence, and kissed him, and they embraced each other, and he brought them into the tent.
bes@Exodus:18:8 @ And Moses related to his father-in-law all things that the Lord did to Pharao and all the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the labour that had befallen them in the way, and that the Lord had rescued them out of the hand of Pharao, and out of the hand of the Egyptians.
bes@Exodus:18:9 @ And Jothor was amazed at all the good things which the Lord did to them, forasmuch as he rescued them out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharao.
bes@Exodus:18:10 @ And Jothor said, Blessed be the Lord, because he has rescued them out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharao.
bes@Exodus:18:11 @ Now know I that the Lord is great above all gods, because of this, (note:)The meaning appears to be, The Lord shewed his superiority on this occasion, when the enemy attacked the Israelites(:note) wherein they attacked them.
bes@Exodus:18:12 @ And Jothor the father-in-law of Moses took whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for God, for Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.
bes@Exodus:18:13 @ And it came to pass after the morrow that Moses sat to judge the people, and all the people stood by Moses from morning till evening.
bes@Exodus:18:14 @ And Jothor having seen all that Moses (note:)Gr. does(:note) did to the people, says, What is this that thou doest to the people? wherefore sittest thou alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning till evening?
bes@Exodus:18:15 @ And Moses says to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to seek judgement from God.
bes@Exodus:18:16 @ For whenever there is a dispute among them, and they come to me, I give judgement upon each, and I teach them the ordinances of God and his law.
bes@Exodus:18:17 @ And the father-in-law of Moses said to him, Thou dost not this thing rightly,
bes@Exodus:18:18 @ thou wilt wear away with intolerable weariness, both those and all this people which is with thee: this thing is hard, thou wilt not be able to endure it thyself alone.
bes@Exodus:18:19 @ Now then hearken to me, and I will advise thee, and God shall be with thee: be thou to the people in the things pertaining to God, and thou shalt bring their (note:)Gr. words(:note) matters to God.
bes@Exodus:18:20 @ And thou shalt testify to them the ordinances of God and his law, and thou shalt shew to them the ways in which they shall walk, and the works which they shall do.
bes@Exodus:18:21 @ And do thou look out for thyself out of all the people able men, fearing God, righteous men, hating pride, and thou shalt set over (note:)Gr. them(:note) the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.
bes@Exodus:18:22 @ And they shall judge the people at all times, and the too burdensome matter they shall bring to thee, but they shall judge the smaller cases; so they shall relieve thee and help thee.
bes@Exodus:18:23 @ If thou wilt do this thing, God shall strengthen thee, and thou shalt be able to attend, and all this people shall come with peace into (note:)Gr. his own(:note) their own place.
bes@Exodus:18:24 @ And Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did whatsoever he said to him.
bes@Exodus:18:25 @ And Moses chose out able men out of all Israel, and he made them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties and captains of tens over (note:)Gr. them(:note) the people.
bes@Exodus:18:26 @ And they judged the people at all times; and every too burdensome matter they brought to Moses, but every light matter they judged themselves.
bes@Exodus:18:27 @ And Moses dismissed his father-in-law, and he returned to his own land.
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