The Sabbath appointed for rest. CHAP. XVII. Moses smites the rock in Horeb. 17 And the children of Israel did so, Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to and gathered, some more, some less. be kept. 18 And when they did mete it with an 35 And the children of Israel did eat omer, he that gathered much had nothing manna forty years, until they came to a over, and he that gathered little had no land inhabited: they did eat manna, until lack: they gathered every man according they came unto the borders of the land of to his eating. Canaan. 19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of 36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an it till the morning. 20 Notwithstanding, they hearkened ephah. CHAP. XVII. not unto Moses; but some of them left of AND all the congregation of the chil it until the morning, and it bred worms, 22 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. no water for the people to drink. 2 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? 23 And he said unto them, This is that 3 And the people thirsted there for which the LORD hath said, To-morrow is water; and the people murmured against the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that bake that which ye will bake to-day, and thou hast brought us up out of Egypt to kill seethe that ye will seethe; and that which us and our children and our cattle with remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept thirst? until the morning. 24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. 25 And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath unto the LORD; today ye shall not find it in the field. 26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. 4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, Saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. 5 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. 6 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 27 And it came to pass, that there long refuse ye to keep my commandments 7 And he called the name of the place abide ye every man in his place, let no 8 Then came Amalek, and fought with man go out of his place on the seventh day. Israel in Rephidim. 30 So the people rested on the seventh 9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose day. us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: 31 And the house of Israel called the to-morrow I will stand on the top of the name thereof Manna: and it was like cori-hill with the rod of God in my hand. ander-seed, white; and the taste of it was 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to like wafers made with honey. him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, 32 And Moses said, This is the thing Aaron, and Hur, went up to the top of the which the LORD commandeth, Fill an hill. omer of it to be kept for your generations; 11 And it came to pass, when Moses that they may see the bread wherewith I held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: have fed you in the wilderness, when I and when he let down his hand, Amalek brought you forth from the land of Egypt. prevailed. 33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, they took a stone, and put it under him, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept and he sat thereon: and Aaron and Hur for your generations. stayed up his hands, the one on the one 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, solside, and the other on the other side; and ! Joshua discomfits Amalek. EXODUS. Moses es counselled by Jethro. his hands were steady until the going down and the people stood by Moses from the of the sun. morning unto the evening. 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and 14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw his people with the edge of the sword. all that he did to the people, he said, What 14 And the Lord said unto Moses, is this thing that thou doest to the people? Write this for a memorial in a book, and Why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for 1 will people stand by thee from morning unto utterly put out the remembrance of Ama-even? lek 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 sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. CHAP. XVIII. 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 :) 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; (for the God of my father, said he, was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh :) 15 And Moses said unto his father-inlaw, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God: 16 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. 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, and 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 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: 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. 5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Mo- men of truth, hating covetousness; and ses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: 6 And he said unto Moses, I thy fatherin-law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. 21 Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the people, able men, such as fear God, place such over them to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but 71 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kiss-every small matter they shall judge: so ed him: and they asked each other of their shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall welfare: and they came into the tent. bear the burden with thee. 8 And Moses told his father-in-law all 23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh, and command thee so, then thou shalt be able to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all to endure, and all this people shal' also go the travail that had come upon them by the to their place in peace. way, and how the Lord delivered them. 24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of 9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the good- his father-in-law, and did all that he had ness which the Lord had done to Israel, said. whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10 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. 25 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. 26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 27 And Moses let his father-in-law de 11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly, he was above them. part: and he went his way into his own 12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, land. took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' fatherin-law before God. CHAP. XIX. 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 13 And it came to pass on the mor-wilderness of Sinai. row, that Moses sat to judge the people: 2 For they were departed from Rephi The ten commandments. God's message to the Israelites. CHAP. XX. dim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on and had pitched in the wilderness; and a smoke, because the LORD descended there Israel encamped before the mount. upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof as31 And Moses went up unto God, and cended as the smoke of a furnace, and the the LORD called unto him out of the moun- whole mount quaked greatly. tain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the 19 And when the voice of the trumpet house of Jacob, and tell the children of sounded long, and waxed louder and loudIsrael; er, Moses spake, and God answered him 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the by a voice. Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' 20 And the Lord came down upon wings, and brought you unto myself. mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my the LORD called Moses up to the top of voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then the mount; and Moses went up. ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me 21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go above all people: for all the earth is mine: down, charge the people, lest they break 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of priests, and a holy nation. These are of them perish. the words which thou shalt speak unto the 22 And let the priests also which come children of Israel. near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. 71 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD com manded him. 23 And Moses said unto the Lorn, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. 8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken 24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, we will do. And Moses returned the get thee down, and thou shalt come up, words of the people unto the LORD. thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I the priests and the people break through, come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the to come up unto the LORD, lest he break people may hear when I speak with thee, forth upon them. 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 today and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them. CHAP. XX. AND God spake all these words, saying, thy God, have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, 11 And be ready against the third day: for out of the house of bondage. the third day the LORD will come down in 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. me. 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any people round about, saying, Take heed to graven image, or any likeness of any thing yourselves, that ye go not up into the that is in heaven above, or that is in the mount, or touch the border of it: whoso-earth beneath, or that is in the water unever toucheth the mount shall be surely der the earth: put to death: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to 13 There shall not a hand touch it, but them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy he shall surely be stoned or shot through: God am a jealous God, visiting the iniwhether it be beast or man, it shall not quity of the fathers upon the children unto live: when the trumpet soundeth long, the third and fourth generation of them 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. that hate me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 15 And he said unto the people, Be 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the ready against the third day: come not at LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name your wives. 16 And it came to pass on the third in vain. day in the morning, that there were thun- 8 Remember the sabbath-day to keep ders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon it holy. the mount, and the voice of the trumpet 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all exceeding loud; so that all the people that thy work: s in the camp trembled. 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath 17 And Moses brought forth the people of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not out of the camp to meet with God; and do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy they stood at the nether part of the mount. daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid 63 dolatry forbidden. EXODUS. Sundry laws and ordinances. servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger and she havebornehim sons or daughters, that is within thy gates: the wife and her children shall be her mas 11 For in six days the LORD made ter's, and he shall go out by himself. heaven and earth, the sea and all that in 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, them is, and rested the seventh day: I love my master, my wife, and my chilwherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath-dren; I will not go out free: day, and hallowed it. 6 Then his master shall bring him unto 12 Honour thy father and thy mother; the judges: he shall also bring him to the that thy days may be long upon the land door, or unto the door-post: and his maswhich the LORD thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. ter shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. 8 If she please not her master, who hath 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's betrothed her to to himself, then shall he let house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-nation he shall have no power, seeing he servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any hath dealt deceitfully with her. thing that is thy neighbour's. 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his 18 And all the people saw the thun- son, he shall deal with her after the manderings, and the lightnings, and the noise ner of daughters. of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 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. 22 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. 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. 12 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 d; 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 23 Ye shall not make with me gods of selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, silver, neither shall ye make unto you he shall surely be put to death. gods of gold. 17 And he that curseth his father or 24 An altar of earth thou shalt make his mother, shall surely be put to death. unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy 18 And if men strive together, and burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, one smite another with a stone, or with his thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: where I record my name I will come unto 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad thee, and I will bless thee. upon his staff, then shall he that smote him 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn his time, and shall cause him to be thostone, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, roughly healed. thou hast polluted it. 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon. Nou 20 And if a man smite his servant, or his 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 CHAP. XXI. TOW these are the judgments which he is his money. thou shalt set before them. 22 If men strive, and hurt a woman 2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six with child, so that her fruit depart from years he shall serve: and in the seventh her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall he shall go out free for nothing. be surely punished, according as the wo3 If he came in by himself, he shall go man's husband will lay upon him; and he out by himself: if he were married, then shall pay as the judges determine. his wife shall go out with him. 23 And if any mischief follow, then 4 If his master have given him a wife, thou shalt give life for life, | Of theft of damage. CHAP. XXII. Of trespasses borrowing, &c, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand so that the stacks of corn, or the standing for hand, foot for foot, corn, or the field be consumed therewith; 25 Burning for burning, wound for he that kindled the fire shall surely make wound, stripe for stripe. restitution. 26 And if a man smite the eye of his 7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighservant, or the eye of his maid, that it bour money or stuff to keep, and it be stoperish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. If 28 len 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 have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely 9 For all manner of trespass, whether it stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom his life whatsoever is laid upon him. of 31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall 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 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; 34 The owner of the pit shall make it 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 or also they shall divide. or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his: the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double 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 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 torn. 14 And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, ordie, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good. 15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a 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. 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay 17 If her father utterly refuse to give ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own. F CHAP. XXII. her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to Whosoever lieth with a beast shall a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five live. oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 19 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and surely be put to death. be smitten that he die, there shall no blood 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, 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. save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear 5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, their cry; and shall feed in another man's field: of 24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I the best of his own field, and of the best of will kill you with the sword; and your his own vineyard shall he make restitution. wives shall be widows, and your children 6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, fatherless. |