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Exodus 16

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¹ So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations."

² As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron [eventually] placed it in the presence of the[5] Testimony, to be kept.

³ The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they reached an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

⁴ (Now an[6] omer is the tenth of an[7] ephah.)

⁵ Then all the congregation of the children of Israel moved on from the Wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

⁶ Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water so we may [have something to] drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you tempt the LORD and try His patience?"

⁷ But the people were thirsty for water; and the people murmured against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us up from Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"

⁸ So Moses cried out to the LORD for help, saying, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me."

⁹ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

¹⁰ Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at[1] Horeb; there you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may [have something to] drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

¹¹ He named the place [where this miracle occurred] Massah (test) and[2] Meribah (contention) because of the quarreling of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the [patience of the] LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"

¹² Then[3] Amalek [and his people] came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.

¹³ So Moses said to[4] Joshua, "Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek [and his people]. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."

¹⁴ So Joshua did as Moses said, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and[5] Hur went up to the hilltop.

¹⁵ Now when Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he lowered his hand [due to fatigue], Amalek prevailed.

¹⁶ But Moses' hands were heavy and he grew tired. So they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other side; so it was that his hands were steady until the sun set.

¹⁷ So Joshua overwhelmed and defeated[6] Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

¹⁸ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this in the book as a memorial and[7] recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly wipe out the memory of Amalek [and his people] from under heaven."

¹⁹ And Moses built an altar and named it[8] The LORD Is My Banner;

²⁰ saying, "The LORD has sworn [an oath]; the LORD will have war against [the people of] Amalek from generation to generation."

²¹ Now Jethro (Reuel), 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.

²² Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away [from Egypt],

²³ along with her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom (stranger), for Moses said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land."

²⁴ The other [son] was named Eliezer (my God is help), for Moses said, "The God of my father was my help, and He rescued me from the sword of Pharaoh."

²⁵ Then Jethro, his father-in-law, came with Moses' sons and his wife to [join] Moses in the wilderness where he was camped, at the mountain of God [that is, Mt. Sinai in Horeb].

²⁶ He sent a message to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons [who are] with her."

²⁷ So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed down [in respect] and kissed him. They asked each other about their well-being and went into the tent.

²⁸ Moses told his father-in-law about all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and about all the hardship that had happened during the journey, and how the LORD had rescued them.

²⁹ Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done to Israel, in that He had rescued them from the hand of the Egyptians.

³⁰ Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, and who has rescued the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

³¹ Now I know that the LORD is[1] greater than all gods; indeed, it was proven when they acted insolently toward Israel [and the LORD showed Himself infinitely superior to all their gods]."

³² Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and [other] sacrifices [to offer] to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law before God.

³³ Now the next day Moses sat to judge [the disputes] the people [had with one another], and the people stood around Moses from dawn to dusk.

³⁴ When Moses' father-in-law saw everything that he was doing for the people, he said, "What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting alone [as a judge] with all the people standing around you from dawn to dusk?"

³⁵ Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to ask [about the will] of God.

³⁶ When they have a dispute they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor and I make known the statutes of God and His laws."

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1	So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations."
2	As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron [eventually] placed it in the presence of the[5] Testimony, to be kept.
3	The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they reached an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
4	(Now an[6] omer is the tenth of an[7] ephah.)
5	Then all the congregation of the children of Israel moved on from the Wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
6	Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water so we may [have something to] drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you tempt the LORD and try His patience?"
7	But the people were thirsty for water; and the people murmured against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us up from Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"
8	So Moses cried out to the LORD for help, saying, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me."
9	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
10	Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at[1] Horeb; there you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may [have something to] drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
11	He named the place [where this miracle occurred] Massah (test) and[2] Meribah (contention) because of the quarreling of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the [patience of the] LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us, or not?"
12	Then[3] Amalek [and his people] came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
13	So Moses said to[4] Joshua, "Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek [and his people]. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."
14	So Joshua did as Moses said, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and[5] Hur went up to the hilltop.
15	Now when Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he lowered his hand [due to fatigue], Amalek prevailed.
16	But Moses' hands were heavy and he grew tired. So they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other side; so it was that his hands were steady until the sun set.
17	So Joshua overwhelmed and defeated[6] Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
18	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this in the book as a memorial and[7] recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly wipe out the memory of Amalek [and his people] from under heaven."
19	And Moses built an altar and named it[8] The LORD Is My Banner;
20	saying, "The LORD has sworn [an oath]; the LORD will have war against [the people of] Amalek from generation to generation."
21	Now Jethro (Reuel), 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.
22	Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away [from Egypt],
23	along with her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom (stranger), for Moses said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land."
24	The other [son] was named Eliezer (my God is help), for Moses said, "The God of my father was my help, and He rescued me from the sword of Pharaoh."
25	Then Jethro, his father-in-law, came with Moses' sons and his wife to [join] Moses in the wilderness where he was camped, at the mountain of God [that is, Mt. Sinai in Horeb].
26	He sent a message to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons [who are] with her."
27	So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed down [in respect] and kissed him. They asked each other about their well-being and went into the tent.
28	Moses told his father-in-law about all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and about all the hardship that had happened during the journey, and how the LORD had rescued them.
29	Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done to Israel, in that He had rescued them from the hand of the Egyptians.
30	Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, and who has rescued the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
31	Now I know that the LORD is[1] greater than all gods; indeed, it was proven when they acted insolently toward Israel [and the LORD showed Himself infinitely superior to all their gods]."
32	Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and [other] sacrifices [to offer] to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law before God.
33	Now the next day Moses sat to judge [the disputes] the people [had with one another], and the people stood around Moses from dawn to dusk.
34	When Moses' father-in-law saw everything that he was doing for the people, he said, "What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting alone [as a judge] with all the people standing around you from dawn to dusk?"
35	Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to ask [about the will] of God.
36	When they have a dispute they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor and I make known the statutes of God and His laws."

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