unto them: 'It is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. 16This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded: Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent.' 17And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. 18And when they did mete it with an omer, » Heb. Man hu. 84 EXODUS he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every roan ac- cording to his eating. 19And Moses said unto thorny 'Let no man leave of it till the morning.' ^Notwithstand- ing they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and rotted; and Moses was wroth with them. ^And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating; and as the sun waxed hot, it melted. ^And it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congre- gation came and told Moses. ^And he said unto them: ' This is that which the LORD hath spoken: To-morrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto the LOBD. Bake that which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye will seethe; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning/ MAnd they kid it up till the morning, as Moses bade; and it did not rot, neither was there any worm therein. ^And Moses said: 'Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sab- bath unto the LORD; to-day ye shall not find it in the field. 26Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it 'there shall be none.7 27And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to gather, and they found none. 28And the LORD said un- to Moses: 'How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws? 29See 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 man go out of his place on the seventh day/ 30So the people rested on the seventh day. 31Aiid the house * Heb. M an.
85 of Israel called the name thereof aManna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. ^And Moses said: 'This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded: Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt/ ^And Moses said unto Aaron: ' Take a jar, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations/ ^As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. ^And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. ^Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
1 17 And all the congregation of the x children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and encamped in Hephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink. 2Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said: 'Give us water that we may drink/ Aiid Moses said unto them: 'Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye try the LORD?' 3And the people thirst- ed there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said: 'Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our chil- dren and our cattle with thirst?' 4And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me/ sAnd the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and EXODUS of all that God had done for Moses, Now Jethro, the priest of Mid- Moses7 father-in-law, heard an, thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. •Be- hold, I will stand before thee there ( upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall \ and for Israel His people, how that come water out of it, that the people j the LORD had brought Israel out of may drink.' And Moses did so in the; Egypt. 2And Jethro, Moses' father- sight of the elders of Israel. 7And; in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, the name of the ^lace was called \ after he had sent her away, 3and her •Massah, and bMeribah, because of two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the LORD, saying: 'Is the LOED among us, or not?'
*Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim, 9And Moses said unto Joshua: * 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.' 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. nAnd it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. X2But 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. "And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. "And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remem- brance of Amalek from under heaven.7 uAnd Moses built an altar, and called the name of it cAdonai-nissi. 16And he said: 'The hand upon the throne of the LORD: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation/ have been a stranger in land'; 4and the name of said: a strange the other was dEliezer: 'for the God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.' 5And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he was en- camped, at the mount of God: 6and he said unto Moses: 'I thy father- in-law Jethro am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.' 7And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down and kissed lam; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the ^tent. his father-in-law 8And Moses told all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them. 9And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, in that He had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10And 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 tiand of the Egyptians. uNow I mow that the LORD is greater than all gods; yea, for that they dealt proudly against them.' ^And Jethro, » Tiiat is, Trying.
*» That i d Heb., , Stnfe. o That is, The LORD is my banner. it, God, and ezer, help.
86 EXODUS offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses7 father-in-law before God. "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood about Moses from the morning unto the evening. 14And 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 about thee from morning unto even?' 15And Moses said unto his father-in-law: 'Be- cause the people come unto me to inquire of God; 16when they have a matter, it cometh unto me; and I judge between a man and his neigh- bour, and I make them know the statutes of God, and His laws.' 17And Moses' father-in-law said unto him: 'The thing that thou doest is not good. 18Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. "Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee* be thou for the people before God, and bring thou the causes unto God. 20And thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. ^Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. ^And let them judge the people at all seasons; and it shall be, that every at matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they judge themselves; so shall they make it easier for thee and bear the burden with thee. ^If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.' ^o Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. ^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. ^And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but eveiy small matter they judged themselves. 27And Moses let his ^ father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land. 1 Q In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilder- ness of Sinai. 2And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount. 3And 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: 4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself. 5Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine; 6and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel/ 7And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD commanded him. 8And all the 87 EXODUS people answered together, and said: rAll that the LORD hath spoken we will do/ And Moses reported the words of the people unto the LORD. 9Afcd 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 may also believe thee for ever/ And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. JOAnd the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments, lland 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, ^And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying: Take heed to your- selves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death; ^o hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live; when the ram's horn soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount/ 14And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed then? gar- ments. 15And he said unto the people: 'Be ready against the third day; come not near a woman/ wAnd it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a horn exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trem- bled. 17And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the, mount. 18Now mount Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount t quaked greatly. 19And when the voice of the horn waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered Kim, by a voice. 20And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount; and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. 21And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the_ LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. ^And let the priests also, ^ that come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break^ forth upon them/ ^And Moses said unto the LORD: 'The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou didst charge us, say- ing: Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it/ ^And the LORD said unto him: 'Go, 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/ 25So Moses went down Unto the people, and told them. O A And God spoke all these words, ^^ saying: 2I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3Thou shalt have no other gods be- fore Me. 4Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 6thou shalt not bow down unto 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 aeration of them that hate Me; 6and awing mercy unto the thousandth EXODUS generation of them that love Me and i prove you, and that His fear may be keep My commandments.
7Thou 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.
8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; 10but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; ufor in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
^Honour thy father and thy mother, before you, that ye sin not/ 18And the people 'stood afar off; but Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
19And the LORD said unto Moses: Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel: Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 20Ye shall not make with Me — gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you. ^An altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt- offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be mentioned I will come unto thee and bless thee. ^And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast that thy days may be long upon the* profaned it. ^Neither shalt thou go up land which the LORD thy God giveth I by steps unto Mine altar, that thy thee. j nakedness be not uncovered thereon.
wThou shalt not murder.
Thou shalt not commit adultery. | Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
14Thou shalt not covet thy neigh- bour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man- servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
15And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the horn, and the moun- tain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off. 16And they said unto Moses: 'Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die/ 17And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear not; for God is come to O1 Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. 2If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by him- self. 6But if the servant shall plainly say: I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free; ^hen his master shall bring him unto *God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
•That is, the judges 89 EXODUS 7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not out as the men-servants do. 8If please not her master, who hatl espoused her to himself, then shal he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish. uAnd $ he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.
^He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death. BAnd if a man He not in wait, but God cause it to come to hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he may nee.
14And if a man come presumptuous- ly upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from Mine altar, that he may die.
^And he that smiteth his father, or Ms mother, shall be surely put to death.
16And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. ^ 17Aiid he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
18And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed; I9if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20And if a man smite his bondman, or his bondwoman, with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall surely be punished. ^Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his money.
^And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. ^But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
if a man smite the eye of his bondman, or the eye of his bondwoman, and destroy it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27And if he smite out his bondman's tooth, or his bond- woman's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
28And if an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 29But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and warning bath been given to its owner, and he bath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is .aid upon him. 31Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. ^If the ox gore a Dondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
if a man shall open a pit, or f a man shall dig a pit and not cover t, and an ox or an ass fall therein, ^he owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the 90 EXODUS owner of them, and tKe dead beast shall be his.
35And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide. 360r if it be known that the ox was saith: 'This is it/ the cause of both parties shall come before aGod; he whom *God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbour.
9If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, wont to gore in time past, and its | or driven away, no man seeing it- owner hath not kept it in; he shall zothe oath of the LORD shall be besurely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own, 87If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a 22 , sheep. 1If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no blood- guiltiness for him. 2If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him — he shall make restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 3If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double.
4If a man cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. 6If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
6If a man deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double. 7If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto *God, to see whether ^ he have not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. 8For every matter of tres- pass, whether it be for ox, for ass, For sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, whereof one » That is, the judges 91 tween them both, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neigh- bour's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. "But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. ^If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness; he shall not make good that which was torn.
^And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. 14If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hireling, he loseth his hire.
15And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. islf her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins, 17Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.
18Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
19He that sacrificeth unto the gods, save unto the LOED only, shall be utterly destroyed.
20And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. ^Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ^If thou afflict them in any wise— for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry — ^My wrath shall wax EXODUS hot, and I will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
MIf thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest. *>lf thou at all take thy neighbour's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun. goeth down; ^or that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto Me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.