Exodus 15:22–18:27
Yahweh Provides Water at Marah
22 And Moses caused Israel to set out from the ⌊Red Sea⌋,m and they went out into the desert of Shur, and they traveled three days in the desert, and they did not find water. 23 And they came to Marah, and they were not able to drink water from Marah because it was bitter. Therefore ⌊it was named⌋n Marah. 24 And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 And he cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a piece of wood, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he made a rule and regulation for them, and there he tested them. 26 And he said, “If you carefully listen to the voice of Yahweh your God and you do what is right in his eyes and give heed to his commands and you keep all his rules, then I will not bring about on you any of the diseaseso that I brought about on Egypt, because I am Yahweh your healer.
27 And they came to Elim, and twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees were there, and they encamped there at the water.
Yahweh Provides Food in the Desert
16 And they set out from Elim, and all the community of the ⌊Israelites⌋a came to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim ⌊and Sinai⌋,b in the fifteenth day of the second month of their going out from the land of Egypt. 2 And all the community of the ⌊Israelites⌋c grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the desert. 3 And the ⌊Israelites⌋d said to them, “⌊If only we had died⌋e by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the potsf of meat, when we ate bread ⌊until we were full⌋,g because you have brought us out to this desert to kill all of this assembly with hunger.” 4 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, I am going to rain down for you bread from the heavens, and the people will go out and gather enough for the day on its day; in that way I will test them: Will they go according to my law or not? 5 And then on the sixth day, they will prepare what they bring, and it will be twice over what they will gather every other day.”
6 And Moses and Aaron said to all the ⌊Israelites⌋,h “In the evening, you will know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt, 7 and in the morning, you will see the glory of Yahweh, ⌊for he hears⌋i your grumblings against Yahweh, and what are we that you grumble against us?” 8 And Moses said, “When in the evening Yahweh gives you meat to eat and bread in the morning ⌊to fill up on⌋,j ⌊for he hears⌋k your grumblings that you grumble against him—and what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against Yahweh.” 9 And Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the community of the ⌊Israelites⌋,l ‘Come near before Yahweh because he has heard your grumblings.’ ”
10 And at the moment of Aaron’s speaking to all the community of the ⌊Israelites⌋,m they turned to the desert, ⌊and just then⌋n the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud. 11 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 12 “I have heard the grumblings of the ⌊Israelites⌋.o Speak to them, saying, ‘⌊At twilight⌋p you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be full with bread, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
13 And so it was, in the evening, the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning, a layer of dew was all around the camp. 14 And the layer of dew came up, ⌊and there⌋q on the face of the desert was a fine granular substance, fine like frost on the ground. 15 And the ⌊Israelites⌋r saw, and they said ⌊to each other⌋,s “What is this?” because they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “That is the bread that Yahweh has given to you as food. 16 This is the word that Yahweh commanded, ‘Gather from it, ⌊each according to what he can eat⌋,t an omer per personu according to the number of you.v You each shall take enough for whoever is in his tent.’ ”
17 And the ⌊Israelites⌋w did so, and they gathered, some more and some less. 18 And when they measured with the omer, the one gathering more had no surplus, and the one gathering less had no lack; they gathered ⌊each according to what he could eat⌋.x 19 And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it until morning.” 20 But they did not listen to Moses. Some peopley left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 21 And they gathered it morning by morning, ⌊each according to what he could eat⌋,z and it melted when the sun was hot.a
22 And when it was the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one person, and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses. 23 And he said to them, “This is what Yahweh has said. Tomorrow is a rest period, a holy Sabbath for Yahweh. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Put aside all the surplus for yourselves for safekeeping until the morning.” 24 And they put it aside until the morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not make a stench, and not a maggot was in it. 25 And Moses said, “Eat it today, because today is a Sabbath for Yahweh. Today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be present on it.”
27 And on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they did not find any. 28 And Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do youb refuse to keep my commands and my laws? 29 See, because Yahweh has given to you the Sabbath, therefore he is giving to you on the sixth day bread for two days. Stay, ⌊each in his location⌋;c let no one go from his place on the seventh day.” 30 And the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called its name “manna.” And it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like a wafer with honey. 32 And Moses said, “This is the word that Yahweh has commanded. ‘A full omer of it is for safekeeping for your generations so that they will see the bread that I fed you in the desert when I brought you from the land of Egypt.’ ” 33 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take one jar and put there a full omer of manna. Leave it before Yahweh for safekeeping for your generations.” 34 As Yahweh had commanded Moses, so Aaron left it before the testimony for safekeeping. 35 And the ⌊Israelites⌋d ate the manna forty years, until their coming to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until their coming to the border of the land of Canaan. 36 (And an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
17 And all the community of the ⌊Israelites⌋a set out from the desert of Sin for their journeys according to the command of Yahweh, and they camped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 And the people quarreled with Moses, and they said, “Give us water so that we can drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?” 3 And the people thirsted for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why ⌊ever⌋b did you bring us up from Egypt to kill mec and my sons and my cattle with thirst?”
4 And Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, “What will I do with this people? A little longer and they will stone me.” 5 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Go on before the people and take with you some from the elders of Israel, and the staff with which you struck the Nile take in your hand, and go. 6 Look, I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out from it, and the people will drink.”
And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the ⌊Israelites⌋d and because of their testing Yahweh by saying, “Is Yahweh in our midst or not?”
8 And Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9 And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight against Amalek tomorrow. I will be standing on the top of the hill, and the staff of God will be in my hand.”
10 And Joshua did as Moses had said to him to fight with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 Ande when Moses raised his hand, Israel would prevail, but when he rested his hand, Amalek would prevail. 12 But the hands of Moses were heavy, and they took a stone and placed it under him, and he sat on it; Aaron and Hur supported his hands, ⌊one on each side⌋,f and his hands were steady until ⌊sundown⌋.g 13 And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the ⌊edge of the sword⌋.h
14 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in the scroll and ⌊recite it in the hearing of⌋i Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.”
15 And Moses built an altar, and he called its name Yahweh Is My Banner. 16 And he said, “Because a hand was against the throne of Yah,j a war will be for Yahweh with Amalek from generation to generation.”
Jethro’s Visit to Moses at the Mountain of God
18 And Jethro, the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, his people, that Yahweh had brought Israel out from Egypt. 2 And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away, 3 and her two sons—the one whose name was Gershom, for he had said, “I have been an alien in a foreign land,” 4 and the one whose name was Eliezer, for “the God of my father was my help, and he delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.” 5 And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, came and his sons and his wife to Moses, to the desert where he was camping there at the mountain of God. 6 And he said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her.” 7 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed, and he kissed him, and ⌊they each asked about the other’s welfare⌋,a and they came into the tent.
8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the hardship that had found them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them. 9 And Jethro rejoiced over all the good that Yahweh had done for …