Exodus 19:13 — Exodus 20:10

13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, he shall not live. When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.

14 And Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their garments.

15 And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day. Do not go near a woman.

16 And on the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud trumpet sound; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the base of the mountain.

18 Now the whole of Mount Sinai smoked because Jehovah descended upon it in fire, and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace; and the whole mountain shook greatly.

19 And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in a voice.

20 And Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai at the top of the mountain, and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain; and Moses went up.

21 Then Jehovah said to Moses, Go down; charge the people not to break through to Jehovah to look, lest many of them perish.

22 And let the priests who come near to Jehovah also sanctify themselves, so that Jehovah does not break forth upon them.

23 And Moses said to Jehovah, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You charged us, saying, Set limits around the mountain, and sanctify it.

24 And Jehovah said to him, Go, get down; then you shall come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people force a way through to come up to Jehovah, so that He does not break forth upon them.

25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.

CHAPTER 20

1 And God spoke all these words, saying,

2 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the slave house;

3 You shall have no other gods before Me.

4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, nor the form of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water beneath the earth.

5 You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them; for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

6 Yet showing lovingkindness to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

7 You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain, for Jehovah will not hold guiltless him who takes His name in vain.

8 Remember the Sabbath day so as to sanctify it.

9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work, you nor your son nor your daughter, your male servant nor your female servant, nor your cattle nor the sojourner with you, who is within your gates.

Exodus 18:20 — Exodus 19:12

20 And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they should walk and the work that they should do.

21 You also should look for able men among all the people who fear God, men of truth, who hate unjust gain; and place them over them, as leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens.

22 And let them judge the people at all times; and let them bring every great matter to you, but every small matter let them judge themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

23 If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.

24 So Moses listened 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: leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens.

26 And they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

27 And Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own land.

CHAPTER 19

1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

2 And when they had journeyed from Rephidim and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped in front of the mountain.

3 And Moses went up to God, and Jehovah called to him out of the mountain, saying, Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel:

4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My personal treasure from among all peoples, for all the earth is Mine.

6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel.

7 So Moses came and called for the elders of the people and set before them all these words which Jehovah had commanded him.

8 And all the people answered together and said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to Jehovah.

9 And Jehovah said to Moses, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe you forever. Then Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah,

10 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow; and have them wash their garments,

11 And be ready for the third day; for the third day Jehovah will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

12 And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, Be careful that you do not go up on the mountain or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 16:31 — Exodus 17:16

31 And the house of Israel called its name manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers made with honey.

32 And Moses said, This is what Jehovah has commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.

33 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna in it, and place it before Jehovah, to be kept throughout your generations.

34 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept.

35 And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to inhabitable land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

36 Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.

CHAPTER 17

1 And all the assembly of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin by their stages according to the command of Jehovah and encamped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.

2 Therefore the people contended with Moses and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why are you contending with me? Why do you test Jehovah?

3 So the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses and said, For what reason did you bring us up out of Egypt; to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?

4 So Moses cried out to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? A little more, and they will stone me.

5 And Jehovah said to Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the River, and go.

6 I will be standing before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

7 And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel and because they tested Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?

8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

9 And 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 the staff of God in my hand.

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.

11 And when Moses lifted his hand up, Israel prevailed; and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

12 But Moses’ hands were heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

13 And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

14 And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.

15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi;

16 For he said, For there is a hand against the throne of Jah! Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Exodus 16:10 — Exodus 16:30

10 And as Aaron spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and there the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud.

11 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, At twilight you will eat flesh, and in the morning you will be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am Jehovah your God.

13 And at evening quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

14 And when the layer of dew lifted, there upon the surface of the wilderness were fine round flakes, fine as the frost on the earth.

15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which Jehovah has given you to eat.

16 This is what Jehovah has commanded, Gather of it, each one according to his eating; you shall take an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, each one for those who are in his tent.

17 And the children of Israel did so; and some gathered much, and some little.

18 And when they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no lack; each of them gathered according to his eating.

19 And Moses said to them, Let no man leave any of it until the morning.

20 But they did not listen to Moses, and some men left part of it until the morning; and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was indignant with them.

21 And they gathered it morning by morning, each one according to his eating; and when the sun became hot, it melted.

22 And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the leaders of the assembly came and told Moses.

23 And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has spoken, Tomorrow is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to Jehovah. Bake what you will bake, and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside for yourselves to be kept until the morning.

24 And they put it aside until the morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor was there any worm in it.

25 And Moses said, Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to Jehovah; today you will not find it in the field.

26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath; on it there will be none.

27 And on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

28 And Jehovah said to Moses, How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?

29 See, Jehovah has given you the Sabbath, therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Let each of you stay in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

30 So the people rested on the seventh day.