012:050 Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded
Moses and Aaron, so they did.
012:051 It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
013:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
013:002 "Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb
among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal.
It is mine."
013:003 Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you
came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by
strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place.
No leavened bread shall be eaten.
013:004 This day you go forth in the month Abib.
013:005 It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite,
and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you,
a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this
service in this month.
013:006 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh
day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
013:007 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days;
and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall
there be yeast seen with you, in all your borders.
013:008 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of
that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.'
013:009 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial
between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth;
for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
013:010 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from
year to year.
013:011 "It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land
of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers,
and shall give it you,
013:012 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb,
and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal.
The males shall be Yahweh's.
013:013 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb;
and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck;
and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.
013:014 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying,
'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand
Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
013:015 and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go,
that Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal.
Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb,
being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'
013:016 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between
your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth
out of Egypt."
013:017 It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God
didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines,
although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people
change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
013:018 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness
by the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}; and the children of Israel
went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
013:019 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made
the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you,
and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."
013:020 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham,
in the edge of the wilderness.
013:021 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud,
to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire,
to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
013:022 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night,
didn't depart from before the people.
014:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
014:002 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp
before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon.
You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
014:003 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled
in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'
014:004 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them;
and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies;
and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh."
They did so.
014:005 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled;
and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed
towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done,
that we have let Israel go from serving us?"
014:006 He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;
014:007 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots
of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
014:008 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children
of Israel went out with a high hand.
014:009 The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots
of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them
encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
014:010 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up
their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them;
and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried
out to Yahweh.
014:011 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt,
have you taken us away to die in the wilderness?
Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?
014:012 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying,
'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it
were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we
should die in the wilderness."
014:013 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see
the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today:
for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never
see them again.
014:014 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still."
014:015 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children
of Israel, that they go forward.
014:016 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea,
and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into
the midst of the sea on dry ground.
014:017 I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians,
and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor
over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots,
and over his horsemen.
014:018 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have
gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots,
and over his horsemen."
014:019 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel,
moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved
from before them, and stood behind them.
014:020 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there
was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night:
and the one didn't come near the other all the night.
014:021 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused
the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night,
and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
014:022 The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on
the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their
right hand, and on their left.
014:023 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst
of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots,
and his horsemen.
014:024 It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on
the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud,
and confused the Egyptian army.
014:025 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily;
so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel,
for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!"
014:026 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea,
that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots,
and on their horsemen."
014:027 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned
to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians
fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst
of the sea.
014:028 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen,
even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea.
There remained not so much as one of them.
014:029 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of
the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand,
and on their left.
014:030 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians;
and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
014:031 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians,
and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh,
and in his servant Moses.
015:001 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh,
and said, "I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
015:002 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God,
and I will exalt him.
015:003 Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.
015:004 He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea.
His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}.
015:005 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths
like a stone.
015:006 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.
Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
015:007 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those
who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath.
It consumes them as stubble.
015:008 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.
The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed
in the heart of the sea.
015:009 The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake.
I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them.
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
015:010 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them.
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
015:011 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you,
glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
015:012 You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
015:013 "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you
have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength
to your holy habitation.
015:014 The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold
on the inhabitants of Philistia.
015:015 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold
of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan
are melted away.
015:016 Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm
they are as still as a stone--until your people pass over,
Yahweh, until the people pass over who you have purchased.
015:017 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain
of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made
for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your
hands have established.
015:018 Yahweh shall reign forever and ever."
015:019 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with
his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters
of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry
land in the midst of the sea.
015:020 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine
in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines
and with dances.
015:021 Miriam answered them, "Sing to Yahweh, for he has
triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown
into the sea."
015:022 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds},
and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went
three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
015:023 When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters
of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it
was called Marah.{Marah means bitter.}
015:024 The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
015:025 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw
it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet.
There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there
he tested them;
015:026 and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of
Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes,
and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all
his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I
have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
015:027 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water,
and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
016:001 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation
of the children of Israel came to 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.
016:002 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
016:003 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we
had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt,
when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread,
for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill
this whole assembly with hunger."
016:004 Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from
the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather
a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they
will walk in my law, or not.
016:005 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare
that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much
as they gather daily."
016:006 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening,
then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from
the land of Egypt;
016:007 and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh;
because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh.
Who are we, that you murmur against us?"
016:008 Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening,
and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears
your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we?
Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
016:009 Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the
children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has
heard your murmurings.'"
016:010 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the
children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness,
and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
016:011 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
016:012 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.
Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat,
and in the morning you shall be filled with bread:
and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"
016:013 It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp;
and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
016:014 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of
the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost
on the ground.
016:015 When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another,
"What is it?" For they didn't know what it was.
Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given
you to eat."
016:016 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded:
"Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head,
according to the number of your persons, shall you take it,
every man for those who are in his tent."
016:017 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.
016:018 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much
had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack.
They gathered every man according to his eating.
016:019 Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."
016:020 Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left
of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul:
and Moses was angry with them.
016:021 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according
to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
016:022 It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread,
two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation
came and told Moses.
016:023 He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken,
'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh.
Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you
want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves
to be kept until the morning.'"
016:024 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it
didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.
016:025 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh.
Today you shall not find it in the field.
016:026 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath.
In it there shall be none."
016:027 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went
out to gather, and they found none.
016:028 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my
commandments and my laws?
016:029 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath,
therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days.
Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place
on the seventh day."
016:030 So the people rested on the seventh day.
016:031 The house of Israel called the name of it Manna,{"Manna"
means "What is it?"} and it was like coriander seed, white;
and its taste was like wafers with honey.
016:032 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded,
'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations,
that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness,
when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"
016:033 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full
of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept
throughout your generations."
016:034 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony,
to be kept.
016:035 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they
came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they
came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
016:036 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
017:001 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled
from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to
Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there
was no water for the people to drink.
017:002 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water
to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me?
Why do you test Yahweh?"
017:003 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured
against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt,
to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
017:004 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people?
They are almost ready to stone me."
017:005 Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take
the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand
with which you struck the Nile, and go.
017:006 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb.
You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it,
that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight
of the elders of Israel.
017:007 He called the name of the place Massah,{Massah means testing.}
and Meribah,{Meribah means quarreling.} because the children
of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying,
"Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
017:008 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
017:009 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out,
fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill
with God's rod in my hand."
017:010 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek;
and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
017:011 It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed;
and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
017:012 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it
under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands,
the one on the one side, and the other on the other side.
His hands were steady until sunset.
017:013 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
017:014 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book,
and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly
blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
017:015 Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh
our Banner.{Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi}
017:016 He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek
from generation to generation.'"
018:001 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of
all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people,
how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
018:002 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife,
after he had sent her away,
018:003 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom,{"Gershom"
sounds like the Hebrew for "an alien there."} for Moses said,
"I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".
018:004 The name of the other was Eliezer,{Eliezer means "God is my
helper."} for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered
me from Pharaoh's sword."
018:005 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his
wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped,
at the Mountain of God.
018:006 He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come
to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.
018:007 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him.
They asked each other of their welfare, and they came
into the tent.
018:008 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh
and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships
that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
018:009 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done
to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand
of the Egyptians.
018:010 Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out
of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh;
who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
018:011 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of
the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."
018:012 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices
for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel,
to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
018:013 It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people,
and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
018:014 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people,
he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people?
Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you
from morning to evening?"
018:015 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come
to me to inquire of God.
018:016 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man
and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God,
and his laws."
018:017 Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do
is not good.
018:018 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people
that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you.
You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
018:019 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God
be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring
the causes to God.
018:020 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall
show them the way in which they must walk, and the work
that they must do.
018:021 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men,
such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place
such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds,
rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
018:022 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every
great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter
they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you,
and they shall share the load with you.
018:023 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you
will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go
to their place in peace."
018:024 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did
all that he had said.
018:025 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.
018:026 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard
causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
018:027 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into
his own land.