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no water for the people to drink. the one on the one side, and the c2 Wherefore the people did chide other on the other side; and his hands with Moses, and said, Give us wa-were steady until the going down ter that we may drink. And Moses of the sun.

said unto them, Why chide ye with f 13 And Joshua discomfited Amame? wherefore do ye tempt the lek and his people with the edge of LORD?

the sword.

3 And the people thirsted there r 14 And the LORD said unto Mofor water; and the people murmur-ses, Write this for a memorial in a ed against Moses, and said, Where- book, and rehearse it in the ears of fore is this that thou hast brought Joshua: for I will utterly put out us up out of Egypt to kill us and the remembrance of Amalek from our children and our cattle with under heaven.

thirst.

f4 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

d 15¶ And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAHnissi :

16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

CHAP XVIH.
Midian, Moses' father-in-
THEN Jethro the priest of

2 Then Jetliro, Moses' father-inlaw, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. m 6 Behold, I will stand before thee law, heard of all that God had done there upon the rock in Horeb; and for Moses, and for Israel his people, thou shalt smite the rock, and there and that the LORD had brought Isshall come water out of it, that the rael out of Egypt: people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. g7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, be-j 3 And her two sons; of which the cause of the chiding of the children name of the one was Gershom; (for of Israel, and because they tempted he said, I have been an alien in a the LORD, saying, Is the LORD strange land :) among us, or not? g 8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

9 And Moses said unto Joshina, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.

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 :)

5 And Jethro, Moses' father-inlaw, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: 10 So Joshua did as Moses had 6 And he said unto Moses, I thy said to him. and fought with Ama- father-in-law Jethro am come unto lek and Moses, Aaron, and Hur, thee, and thy wife, and her two sons went up to the top of the hill.

with her.

11 And it came to pass, when d 7 ¶ And Moses went out to meet Moses held up his hand, that Israel | his father-in-law, and did obeisance, prevailed and when he let down and kissed him and they asked his hand, Amalek prevailed. each other of their welfare: and they d 12 But Moses' hands were heavy came into the tent. and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands,

8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh, and 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.
c 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.

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.

people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: d 20 And thou shalt teach them ordiuances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. d 21 Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the people, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

t 11 Now I know that the LORD is 22 And let them judge the peogreater than all gods: for in the ple at all seasons: and it shall be, thing wherein they dealt proudly, he that every great matter they shall was above them. bring unto thee, but every small matd 12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-ter they shall judge: so shall it be law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

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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 viito even?

easier for thyself, and they shall bear
the burden with thee.
d 23 If thou shalt do this thing, and
God command thee so, then thou
shalt be able to endure, and all this
people shall also go to their place in
peace.

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 d 15 And Moses said unto his father-brought unto Moses, but every small in-law, Because the people come matter they judged themselves. 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.

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

CHAP. XIX. gNthe third month, when the chil

dren of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

18 Thou wilt surely wear away,g 2 For they were departed from both thou, and this people that is Rephidim, and were come to the with thee for this thing is too heavy desert of Sinai, and had pitched in for thee; thou art not able to per- the wilderness; and there Israel enform it thyself alone. camped before the mount.

19 Hearken now unto my voice,f 3¶ And Moses went up unto God, I will give thee counsel, and God and the LORD called unto him out shall be with thee: Be thou for the of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt

thou say to the house of Jacob, 15 And he said unto the people, and tell the children of Israel; Be ready against the third day: 4 Ye have seen what I did unto come not at your wives. the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

b 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:

s 16 ¶ And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

17 And Moses brought forth the 6 And ye shall be unto me a king-people out of the camp to meet with dom of priests, and a holy nation. God; and they stood at the nether These are the words which thou shalt part of the mount. speak unto the children of Israel.

s 18 And mount Sinai was altoge7 And Moses came and called ther on a smoke, because the LORD for the elders of the people, and laid descended upon it in fire: and the before their faces all these words smoke thereof ascended as the smoke which the LORD commanded him. of a furnace, and the whole mount c 8 And all the people answered to-quaked greatly.

gether, and said, All that the LORD 19 And when the voice of the hath spoken we will do. And Mo-trumpet sounded long, and waxed ses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

21 And the LORD said unto Mod 10 T And the LORD said unto Mo-ses, Go down, charge the people, lest ses, Go unto the people, and sancti- they break through unto the LORD fy them to-day and to-morrow, and to gaze, and many of them perish. let them wash their clothes, d 22 And let the priests also which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

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.

p 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death

13 There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through: whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, 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.

23 And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through, to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.

25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them. CHAP. XX.

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ND God spake all these words, saying.

I am the LORD thy God, which

have brought thee out of the land of e 18 ¶ And all the people saw the Egypt, out of the house of bondage. thunderings, and the lightnings and p* 3 Thou shalt have no other gods the noise of the trumpet, and the before me. mountain smoking and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

c 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

p* 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hates 21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

me;

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

p* 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

d* 8 Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy.

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work :

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.

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. p 23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

b 24¶ An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy 10 But the seventh day is the sab-peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine bath of the LORD thy God: in it thou oxen: in all places where I record shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy my name I will come unto thee, and son, nor thy daughter, thy man-ser- I will bless thee. vant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath-day, and hallowed it.

d* 12 Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. p 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

CHAP. XXI.

which thou shalt set before them. TOW these are the judgments 1 2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

p 13 Thou shalt not kill. p* 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. p 15 Thou shalt not steal. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall p* 16 Thou shalt not bear false wit-go out by himself: if he were married, ness against thy neighbour. then his wife shall go out with him. p* 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neigh- 4 If his master have given him a bour's house, thou shalt not covet wife, and she have borne him sons or thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-ser-daughters, the wife and her children vant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, shall be her master's, and he shall nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy go out by himself. neighbour's. 5 And if the servant shall plain

ly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges: he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the doorpost and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. L 20 And if a man sinite 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 punishL 7 And if a man sell his daughtered: for he is his money. to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

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.

p 12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

22 ¶ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. L 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. L 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; L. 28 T If an ox gore a man or a wo then I will appoint thee a place whi- man, that they die: then the ox shall ther he shall flee. be surely stoned, and his flesh shall 14 But if a man come presumptu-not be eaten; but the owner of the ously upon his neighbour, to slay him ox shall be quit. with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

L 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

L 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

p 17 And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

L 18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he

L 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 of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.

L32 If the ox shall push a man-servant, or maid-servant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of

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