Exodus 15:22–17:16

²²So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of ^cShur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. ²³And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called ^||Marah. ²⁴And the people ^dmurmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? ²⁵And he ^ecried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him ^fa tree, ^gwhich when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he ^hmade for them a statute and an ordinance, and there ⁱhe proved them, ²⁶And said, ^kIf thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these ^ldiseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord ^mthat healeth thee. ²⁷ⁿAnd they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

16And they ^atook their journey from Elim, 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. ²And the whole congregation of the children of Israel ^bmurmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: ³And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, ^cwhen 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. ⁴Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain ^dbread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather ^†a certain rate every day, that I may ^eprove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. ⁵And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and ^fit shall be twice as much as they gather daily. ⁶And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, ^gAt even, ^hthen ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt: ⁷And in the morning, then ye shall see ⁱthe glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and ^kwhat are we, that ye murmur against us? ⁸And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but ^lagainst the Lord. ⁹And Moses ^mspake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, ⁿCome near before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmurings. ¹⁰And 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 ^oappeared in the cloud. ¹¹And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ^12pI have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, ^qAt even ye shall eat flesh, and ^rin the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ^sye shall know that I am the Lord your God. ¹³And it came to pass, that at even ^tthe quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning ^uthe dew lay round about the host. ¹⁴And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay ^ua small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. ¹⁵And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, ^||It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, ^xThis is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. ¹⁶This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man ^yaccording to his eating, ^zan omer ^†for every man, according to the number of your ^†persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents. ¹⁷And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. ¹⁸And when they did mete it with an omer, ^ahe that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man ^baccording to his eating. ¹⁹And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. ²⁰Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them. ²¹And they gathered it every morning, every man ^baccording to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. ²²And 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. ²³And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is ^cthe rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. ²⁴And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not ^dstink, neither was there any worm therein. ²⁵And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field. ²⁶Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. ²⁷And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. ²⁸And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? ²⁹See, 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 ^ein his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. ³⁰So the people rested on the seventh day. ³¹And the house of Israel called the name thereof ^fManna: and ^git was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. ³²And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. ³³And Moses said unto Aaron, ^hTake a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. ³⁴As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up ⁱbefore the Testimony, to be kept. ³⁵And the children of Israel did eat manna ^kforty years, ^luntil they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. ³⁶Now an omer is ^mthe tenth part of an ephah.

17And ^aall the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. ^2bWherefore 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 ^ctempt the Lord? ³And the people thirsted there for water; and the people ^dmurmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? ⁴And Moses ^ecried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to ^fstone me. ⁵And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith ^gthou smotest ^hthe river, take in thine hand, and go. ⁶ⁱBehold, 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 Israel. ⁷And he called the name of the place ^k||Massah, and ^||Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?

^8lThen came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. ⁹And Moses said unto ^mJoshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with ⁿthe rod of God in mine hand. ¹⁰So 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. ¹¹And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. ¹²But Moses’ hands were heavy; and 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. ¹³And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. ¹⁴And the Lord said unto Moses, ^oWrite this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for ^pI will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. ¹⁵And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it ^||Jehovah-nissi: ¹⁶For he said, ^||Because ^†the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.