The first-born sanctified to God. EXODUS. Pharaoh pursues the Israelites. firstling that cometh of a beast which thou|raoh and of his servants was turned against hast, the males shall be the LORD'S. the people, and they said, Why have we 13 And every firstling of an ass thou done this, that we have let Israel shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt serving us?

go from

not redeem it, then thou shalt break his 6 And he made ready his chariot, and neck and all the first-born of man among took his people with him:

thy children shalt thou redeem.

7 And he took six hundred chosen chari

14 And it shall be when thy son asketh ots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and capthee in time to come, saying, What is this? tains over every one of them.

that thou shalt say unto him, By strength 8 And the LORD hardened the heart of of hand the LORD brought us out from Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued Egypt, from the house of bondage: after the children of Israel: and the chil15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh dren of Israel went out with an high would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew hand. all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the first-born of my children I redeem. 16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.

9 But the Egyptians pursued after them (all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army) and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

10 ¶ And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.

17 ¶ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them 11 And they said unto Moses, Because not through the way of the land of the Phi- there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou listines, although that was near, for God taken us away to die in the wilderness? said, Lest peradventure the people repent Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to when they see war, and they return to carry us forth out of Egypt? Egypt: 12 Is not this the word that we did tell 18 But God led the people about, through thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea: we may serve the Egyptians? For it had and the children of Israel went up harness-been better for us to serve the Egyptians, ed out of the land of Egypt. than that we should die in the wilderness.

19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph 13 And Moses said unto the people, with him: for he had straitly sworn the chil- Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvadren of Israel, saying, God will surely visit tion of the LORD, which he will shew to you; and ye shall carry up my bones away you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye hence with you. have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.

20 ¶ And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light to go by day and night.

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22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

CHAP. XIV.

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.

3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

14 The LORD shall fight for shall hold your peace.

you,

and ye

15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:

16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

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18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when 1 have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

19¶ And the angel of God which went before the camp of Israel, removed, and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood be

4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I hind them: am the LORD. And they did so.

20 And it came between the camp of the 5 And it was told the king of Egypt Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it that the people fled: and the heart of Pha-was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave

The Egyptians drowned.

CHAP. XV.

The song of Moses. light by night to these: so that the one came cast into the sea: his chosen captains also not near the other all the night. are drowned in the Red sea.

21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

22 And the children of Israel went into 7 And in the greatness of thine excellenthe midst of the sea upon the dry ground: cy thou hast overthrown them that rose up and the waters were a wall unto them on against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, their right hand and on their left. which consumed them as stubble.

23 And the Egyptians pursued, and 8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the went in after them, to the midst of the sea, waters were gathered together, the floods even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and stood upright as an heap, and the depths his horsemen. were congealed in the heart of the sea.

24 And it came to pass, that in the morning-watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,

25 And took off their chariot-wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil: my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

Il Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing won

26 And the LORD said unto Moses, ders? Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, waters may come again upon the Egyp- the earth swallowed them.

tians, upon their chariots, and upon their 13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the horsemen. people which thou hast redeemed: thou 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand hast guided them in thy strength unto thy over the sea, and the sea returned to his holy habitation.

strength when the morning appeared; and 14 The people shall hear, and be afraid : the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the Palestina.

sea.

28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.

15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be 29 But the children of Israel walked as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and O LORD, till the people pass over, which the waters were a wall unto them on their thou hast purchased. right hand, and on their left.

30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians: and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.

31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses. CHAP. XV.

HEN sang Moses and the children of

spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the

sea.

2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in; in the sanctuary, LORD, which thy hands have established.

18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.

19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them: but the

midst of the sea.

20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances.

21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

22 ¶ So Moses brought Israel from the 4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he Red sea, and they went out into the wilder

The Israelites murmur for bread. EXODUS.

Quails and manna sent.

ness of Shur; and they went three days in 9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say the wilderness, and found no water. unto all the congregation of the children of 23 And when they came to Marah, Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he they could not drink of the waters of Ma-hath heard your murmurings. rah; for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a 12 I have heard the murmurings of the statute and an ordinance, and there he children of Israel; speak unto them, sayproved them, ing, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the

26 And said, If thou wilt diligently morning ye shall be filled with bread and hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, ye shall know that I am the LORD your and wilt do that which is right in his sight, God.

and wilt give ear to his commandments, and 13 And it came to pass, that at even the keep all his statutes; I will put none of quails came up, and covered the camp: these diseases upon thee, which I have and in the morning the dew lay round brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the about the host. LORD that healeth thee.

27 ¶ And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

CHAP. XVI.

14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground:

15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna:

AND they took their journey from Elim, for they wist not what it was. And Moses

and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto 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,

2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, and when we did eat bread to the full for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating: an omer for every man according to the number of your persons, take ye every man for them which are

in his tents.

17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack: they gathered every man according to his eating.

19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gath- 20 Notwithstanding, they hearkened not er a certain rate every day, that I may prove unto Moses; but some of them left of it unthem, whether they will walk in my law, or no. til the morning, and it bred worms, and 5 And it shall come to pass, that on the stank: and Moses was wroth with them. sixth day they shall prepare that which 21 And they gathered it every morning, they bring in; and it shall be twice as much every man according to his eating: and as they gather daily. when the sun waxed hot it melted.

6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:

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.

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7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth 23 And he said unto them, This is that your murmurings against the LORD: And which the LORD hath said, To-morrow is what are we, that ye murmur against us? the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD 8 And Moses said, This shall be when bake that which ye will bake to-day, and the LORD shall give you in the evening seethe that ye will seethe; and that which flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept the full; for that the LORD heareth your until the morning.

murmurings which ye murmur against him: 24 And they laid it up till the morning, And what are we? your murmurings are as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neinot against us, but against the LORD. ther was there any worm therein.

The people murmur for water. CHAP. XVII, XVIII. Water out of the rock. 25 And Moses said, Eat that to-day; with thou smotest the river, take in thine for to-day is a sabbath unto the LORD; to- hand, and go. day 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.

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 Moses did so in the sight of the elders of

27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh Israel. day for to gather, and they found none. 7 And he called the name of the place 28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How Massah, and Meribah, because of the chidlong refuse ye to keep my commandments ing of the children of Israel, and because and my laws? they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days: abide ye every man in his place, let no 9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose man go out of his place on the seventh day. us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: 30 So the people rested on the seventh to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

day.

31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek and Moses, Aaron, and Hur, went up to the top of the

hill.

32 ¶ And Moses said, This is the thing 11 And it came to pass, when Moses which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: of it to be kept for your generations; that and when he let down his hand, Amalek they may see the bread wherewith I have prevailed. fed you in the wilderness, when I brought 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and 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.

35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

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

CHAP. XVII.

ness of Sin, after their journeys, according

they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek 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 Amalek 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 to froth generation to have won. sworn that the LORD will have war with CHAP. XVIII.

to the commandment of the LORD, and WHEN Jethro the priest of Midian,

pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

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 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, 2 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, Why chide you with me? wherefore do ye took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had tempt the LORD? sent her back,

3 And the people thirsted there for wa- 3 And her two sons; of which the name ter; and the people murmured against of the one was Gershom; (for he said, I Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that have been an alien in a strange land :) thou hast brought us up out of Egypt to kill 4 And the name of the other was Elieus and our children and our cattle with zer; (for the God of my father, said he, thirst? was mine help, and delivered me from the say-sword of Pharaoh :)

4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, ing, What shall I do unto this people? 5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came they be almost ready to stone me. with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:

5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel and thy rod, where

6 And he said unto Moses, 1 thy father

Moses entertains Jethro.

EXODUS. God's message to the Israelites. in-law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy matter they shall bring unto thee, but every wife, and her two sons with her. small matter they shall judge; so shall it 7 And Moses went out to meet his be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed burden with thee. him and they asked each other of their : welfare and they came into the tent.

23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able 8 And Moses told his father-in-law all to endure, and all this people shall also go that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh, and to their place in peace. to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

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

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

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 themselves. under the hand of the Egyptians.

27 ¶ And Moses let his father-in-law de

11 Now I know that the LORD is greater part: and he went his way into his own than all gods for in the thing wherein they land.

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dealt proudly, he was above them.

CHAP. XIX.

12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, IN the third month, when the children of took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: Israel were gone forth out of the land and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel of Egypt, the same day came they into the to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law be- wilderness of Sinai.

fore 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 unto 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-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.

2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sínai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

3 ¶ 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 children of Israel.

7 ¶ And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD com

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 manded him. not able to perform it thyself alone.

8 And all the people answered together, 19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will and said, All that the LORD hath spoken give thee counsel, and God shall be with we will do. And Moses returned the words thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, of the people unto the LORD.

that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I 20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the and laws, and shalt shew them the way people may hear when I speak with thee, wherein they must walk, and the work that and believe thee for ever. And Moses told they must do. the words of the people unto the LORD. 21 Moreover, thou shalt provide out of 10 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Go all the people, able men, such as fear God, unto the people, and sanctify them to-day men of truth, hating covetousness; and and to-morrow, and let them wash their 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

clothes,

11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.