Moses bade; and it did not stink, neither upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite was there any worm therein. the rock, and there shall come water out of 25 And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for it, that the people may drink. And Moses to-day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to-day did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. ye shall not find it in the field.

7 And he called the name of the place

26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there of the children of Israel, and because they

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?

tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

81 Then came Amelek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amelek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill, with the rod of God in mine hand.

29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread for two days: abide ye every man in his place; let no man go out and Hur, went up to the top of the hill. of his place on the seventh day.

10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to bim, and fought with Amelek and Moses, Aaron, 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held 30 So the people rested on the seventh day. up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when 31 And the house of Israel called the name he let down his hand, Amelek prevailed. thereof Manna: and it was like coriander- 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they seed, white; and the taste of it was like wa- took a stone, and put it under him, and he fers made with honey. sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up

32 And Moses said, This is the thing his hands, the one on the one side, and the which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer other on the other side; and his hands were efit, to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed vou 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.

steady until the going down of the sun.
13 And Joshua discomfited Amelek 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 Amelek from under heaven.

15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAH-nissi:

16 For he said, Because the LORD hath

35 And the children of Israel did eat man-sworn that the LORD will hove war with na forty years, until they came to a land in- Amelek from generation to generation

Aabited: they did eat manna until they came

Into the borders of the land of Canaan.

36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an phah.

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CHAP. XVII.

ND all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness f 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.

CHAP. XVII.

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:

2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; drink. And Moses said unto them, Why for the God of my father, said he, was mine chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt help, and delivered me from the sword of the LORD?

Pharaoh.

3 And the people thirsted there for water; 5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came and the people murmured against Moses, and with his sons and his wife unto Moses into said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought the wilderness, where he encamped at the ns up out of Egypt to kill us, and our chil-mount of God:

dren, and our cattle, with thirst?

6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father

4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, in-law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy What shall I do unto this people? they be wife, and her two sons with her. almost ready to stone me.

711 And Moses went out to meet his father 5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on be-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him, fore the people, and take with thee of the el- and they asked cach other of their welfareders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou and they came into the tent. smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. 8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there the LORD had done unto Pharaoh, and to the Egyptians, for Israel's sake, and all the tra- rulers of thousands, ruler of hundreds, rurail that had come upon them by the way, lers of tifties, and rulers of tens.

and how the LORD delivered them.

26 And they judged the people at all sea

9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the good sons: the hard causes they brought uute ness which the LORD had done to Israel, Moses, but every small inatter they judged whom he had delivered out of the hand of the themselves. Egyptians.

271 And Moses let his father-in-law de

10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, part; and he went his way into his own land. who hath delivered you out of the hand of CHAP. XIX. the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pha-TN the third month, when the children of

rach; who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians

Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

11 Now i know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they 2 For they were departed from Rephidım, 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 anto 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

and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; ard there israel encamped before the mount.

311 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 chil

16 When they have a matter they come dren of Israel. into me, and I judge between one and anyher; and I do inake 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 ard 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 iny 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.

71 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 21 Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the third day the LORD will come down in the people able men. such as fear God, men the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. of truth, hating covetousness; and place such 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the peoover them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers ple round about, saying. Take heed to yourof hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. selves, that ye go not up into the nount, or 22 And let them judge the people at all touch the horder of it: whosoever toucheth seasons: and it shall be, that every great the mount shall be surely put to death: matter they shall bring unto thee, but every 13 There shall not an hand touch it, but small matter they snad judge: so shall it be he shall surely be stoned, or shot through, easier for thyself, and they shall bear the bur-whether it be beast or man, it shall not live den 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 ther pace in peace.

24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

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.

and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceed- and earth, the sea, and all that in thern is, and ing loud; so that all the pe ple that was in rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lour

the camp trembled.

17 And Moses brought forth the people sut of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a moke, 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 Ard 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.

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 conumit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against

my neis bour.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

181 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the

21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and. down, charge the people, lest they break when the people saw it, they removed, and through unto the LORD to gaze, and many stood afar off.

of them perish.

19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou

speak with us, lest we die.

22 And let the priests also, which come with us, and we will hear: but let not God 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.

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CHAP. XX.

ND God spake all these words, saying, 21 am the LORD thy God, which have rought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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.

221 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 burntofferings, 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

31 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. bless thee.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any gra- 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of
ven image, or any likeness of any thing that stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone;
is in heaven above, or that is in the earth be- for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thoa hast
neath, or that is in the water under the earth: polluted it.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto nor serve them for I the LORD thy God am mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discoa jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fa- vered thereon.

thers 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 command

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

CHAP. XXI.

TOW these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

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2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

3 If he came in by himself, he shal go out by himself; if he were married, then his wife shall go out with Lim.

4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy so.., nor thy daugh-love my master, my wife, and my children, ter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, I will not go out free: nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is with: 6 Then his inaster shall bring him unto thy gates: the judges; he shall also bring him to the

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door, or unto the door-post: and his master stored, and his flesh shall not be eaten, ba shall bore his ear through with an awl; and the owner of the ox shall be quit.

ne shall serve him for ever.

29 But if the ox were wont to push with 71 And if a man sell his daughter to be his horn in time past, and it hath been tes maid-servant, she shall not go cut as the tified to his owner, and he hath not kept men-servants do. him in, but that he hath killed a man or a 8 If she please not her master, who hath woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his petrothed der to himself, then shall he let owner also shall be put to death. her be redeemed to sell her unto a strange 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, natior, he shall have no power, seeing he then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

hath dealt deceitfully with her.

9 And if he have betrothed her unto his 31 Whether he have gored a son, or have

son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

121 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

15 And he that smiteth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

16 And he that stealeth a man, and selieth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death

gored a daughter, according to this judg inent shail it be done unto him.

32 If the ox shall push a man-servant, or maid-servant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

33 li And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;

31 The owner of the pit shall make i. good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

36 Or if it be known that the ox hath usea to push in time past, and his owner hath no kept him in: he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own.

17 And he that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

18 And if men strive together. and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed;

19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

20 And if a man smite his servant, or ais maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

CHAP. XXII.

Fa man shall steal an ox or a sneep, and

for an ox. and four sheep for a sheep.

2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

51 If a man shall cause a field or vine yard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the own vineyard, shall be make restitution.

221 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and best of his own field, and of the best of his

yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband 6 If fire break out and catch in thorns, will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the Judges determine.

23 And if any mischief follow, then thou halt give life for life,

24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for nd, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

711 If a man shall deliver unto his neigh. bour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he hath put his hand unto his

27 And if he sinite out his man-servant's neighbour's goods. tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another

28 1 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die; then the ox shall be surely challengeth to be his, the cause of both ar

ties shall come before the judges; and whom neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn o the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs

unto his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which

was toru.

11 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with • he shall surely make it good

15 But if Laser e with it. he shall not make it good: if ice an hired thing, it came for his hire.

16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her; he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

18 1 Thou simlt not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

211 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

2211 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or futherless child.

23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry:

24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

25 1 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee. thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thon lay upon him usury.

26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

27 For that is his covering only; it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear: for I am gracious.

28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

291 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstbort of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

30 Likewise shat fou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: axen days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it ine.

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CHẤP. XXII.

HOU shalt not raise a false report: p
not thine hand with the wicked to be an

unrighteous witness.

21 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment : 3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wonldest forbear to help him; thou shalt surely help with him 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not, for I will not justify the wicked.

81 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

911 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat and what they leave the beasts on the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with the vineyard and with thy oliveyard

121 Six days thou shalt do thy work. and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thing ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.

13 11 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

11 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as 1 commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in is thou camest out from Egypt; and none shal appear before me empty :)

16 And the feast of fiarvest, the first-fruita of thy labours, which thou hast sown in thy field; and the feast of ingathering, which in the end of the year, when thou hast ga thered in thy labours out of the field.

17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.

18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sa crifice with leavened bread; neither sha!! the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

19 The first of the first-truits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

2011 Behold, I send an Angel before shee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee

311 And ye shall be holy men unto me into the place which I liave prepared.

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