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camped there by the waters.

manna.

CHAP. XVI.

a

1 The Israelites come to Sin. 2 They murmur for want of bread. 4 God promiseth them bread from heaven. 11 Quails are sent, 14 and manna. 16 The ordering of 25 It was not to be found on the sabbath. 32 An omer of it is preserved. ND they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilEzek. 30. derness 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.

a Numb. 33. 10, 11.

15.

ch. 15. 24

Ps. 106. 25.

A

2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against

1 Cor. 10. 10. Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

d Lam. 49.

e Numb. 11.

4,5

25. & 105. 40.

3 And the children of Israel said unto them, a Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when 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.

4 Then said the Lord unto Moses, P. 78. 24, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven John 6. 31, for you; and the people shall go out and gather + a certain rate every day, that I

32. 1 Cor. 10.

3

walk in my law, or no.

5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and hit shall be

h See ver. 22. twice as much as they gather daily. Lev. 25. 21. 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all Seever, the children of Israel, At even, then ye 6.7. Numb. shall know that the LORD hath brought 16. 28, 29, 30. you out from the land of Egypt:

13, &c. & ch.

Isai. 35. 2. &

11.4 40. 1 Numb. 16.

11.

7 And in the morning, then ye shall see See ver. 10. the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth 40. 5. John your murmurings against the LORD: and I what are we, that ye murmur against us? 8 And 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 against the LORD. 9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Numb. 16. Israel, "Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.

m See 18am. 8.7. Luke 10.16. Rom. 13. 2.

16.

10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the childover. 7. ch. ren of Israel, that they looked toward the Numb. 16. wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the 19. 1 Kings Lon 6. 10, 11. LORD appeared in the cloud.

18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had no-22 Com thing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

22 And 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.

mandments and my laws?

29 See, 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 in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

31 And the house of Israel called the 11. name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Heb. 9. 4

11. No 10. 20. Numb. 17. 10. Deut. 10.

51 Kings &

32 And 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.

33 And Moses said unto Aaron, 'Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.

34 As the LORD Commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

35 And the children of Israel did eat

Numb. 13. manna forty years, until they came to land inhabited; they did eat manna, 21. John until they came unto the borders of the

Deut. A 2.3 Neb 9

6.31,

1 Josh. 5. 12.

Neh. 9. 15.

Wamb 124

& Numb. 20.

24

a

land of Canaan.

ND all 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. 2 Wherefore 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

Det 6. 16. do ye tempt the LORD?

18,44

1712

Matt. 4. 7.

1 Cor. 10.9

dith 16. 2.

ech. 14. 15. Sara

Water out of the rock.

Before CHRIST

5 And the LORD said unto Moses, & Go on before the people, and take with thee 1491. of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, g Ezek 2.6. wherewith thou smotest the river, take hch. 7. 20. in thine hand, and go.

Numb. 20. 8.

6 Behold, I will stand before thee i Numb. 20.

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.

7 And he called the name of the place || 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?

8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: James 5. and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

12 But 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.

13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge

W

Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;

8. 12. Ezra

9. 14. the LORD See Judges 6.24.

That is,

my banner:

Or, Because the hand of Amalek is against the throne of

the LORD, &c. hand apon

therefore,

Heb. the

the throne of the LORD.

2. 16. & 3. 1.

ach. bPs.44-1. & 78. 4. & 105.

77-146 15- & 5. 43. & 106. 2, 8.

2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he ech. 4. 26. had sent her back,

3 And her two sons; of which the d Acts 7.29.

Moses entertaineth Jethro

Jethro departeth.

CHRIST

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ẹ ch. 2. 22.

| That is,

a stranger there.

That is, my God is

an help.

said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4 And the name of the other was || Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:

5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped fch. 3. 1, 12. at the mount of God:

g Gen. 14.

17. & 18.2

& 19. 1.

1 Kings 2.

19.

h Gen. 29.

13. & 33-4

+ Heb.

peace. Gen, 43.27.2 Sam. 11.7.

6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

71 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.

8 And Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, + Heb found and all the travail that had + come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

them. Gen.

44.34

Numb. 20.

14.

i Ps. 78. 42.

& 81.7. &

106. 10. &

107. 2.

k Gen. 14.

20. 2 Sam.

1.68.

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 Luke 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.

12 Chron.

3. & 97.9.

& 135-5

m ch. 1. 10,

16, 22. & 5.

187-14.&

3. Neh. 9. 10,

11 Now I know that the LORD is I greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt "proudly he was above them.

12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for

22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every & great matter they shall bring unto thee, e Deut. 18. but every small matter they shall judge: ver. 25. so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.

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 1 Deut. 1. 15. all Israel, and made them heads over the Acts 6. 5. people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

26 And they judged the people at all m ver. 22. seasons: the hard causes they brought n Job 20. 16. unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

271 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his Numb. 10. own land.

CHAP. XIX.

40. 11, 12. Ps.

29, 30.

3t. 23. &

149.21.

Luke 1.51.

by Moses unto the people out of the mount. 8 The people's answer returned again. 10 The people are prepared against the third day. 12 The mountain must not be touched. 16 The fearful presence of God upon the

mount.

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13 And it came to pass on the morDeut. 12. row, that Moses sat to judge the people: 29.22. 1 Cor. and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.

10. 18, 21, 31.

p Lev. 24.

12. Numb.

15.34

ch. 23.7. &24.14.

Deut. 17. 8.

Sam, 15.3.

Job 31. 13. Acts 18. 15. 1 Cor. 6. 1. + Heb. a

fellow.

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 unto even?

15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:

16 When they have a matter, they man and his come unto me; and I judge between † one and another, and I do 'make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

I

N the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they a Numb. 33into the wilderness of Sinai.

15.

2 For they were departed from Re-bch. 17.1,8.

phidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the ech.3.1, 12.

Mic. 2. 2.

Hab. 2. 9.

Auke

Acts 20. 33.

Z

18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the.

Rom. 7.7.& noise of the trumpet, and the mountain

13.9. Eph.

5.3.5. Hebr.
y Job 31.9. they removed, and stood afar off.

smoking: and when the people saw it,

13.5.

Prov. 6. 29. Jer. 5. 8.

Matt. 5. 28.

z Hebr. 12.

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.

20 And Moses said unto the people, b ch. 19. 18. "Fear not: 'for God is come to prove Dent. 5-27. you, and that his fear may be before Gal. 3. 19,20. your faces, that ye sin not.

& 18. 16.

d Deut. 5.25.

Hebr. 12. 19. 21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

e 1 Sam. 12.

20. Isai. 41.

10, 13.

f Gen. 22. 1. Deut. 13. 3.

22 And the Lord said unto Moses,

& Deut. 4.10. Thus thou shalt say unto the children of 6210. Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked

& 13,

19. & 19. 20. with you 'from heaven.

& 28. 58.

Prov. 3. 7. &

16. 6. Isai.

8. 13.

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

h ch. 19. 16. gods of gold.

Dent. 5. 5.

Neh. 9.

1 Sam. 5.

1 Kings 8. 12. 24 An altar of earth thou shalt Det 4:36. make unto me, and shalt sacrifice therekch. 32.1,2, on thy burnt offerings, and thy peace 4.5. 2 Kings offerings, 1 thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name 8. Dan. 5.4, I will come unto thee, and I will bless 23. Zeph. 1. 5. 2 Cor. 6. thee.

20.39. & 43.

14, 15, 16.

1 Lev. 1.2.

m

25 And if thou wilt make me an altar m Deut. 12. of stone, thou shalt not build it of 14. 23. & 16. hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool Kings 8.43 upon it, thou hast polluted it.

5, 11, 21. &

6, 11. & 26.2.

& 9.3.

2Chron. 6.6.

26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps &7.16. & 12. unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be

13. Ezra 6.

12. Neh. 1.9. not discovered thereon.

Ps. 74.7. Jer.

7.10, 12.

n Gen. 12. 2.

Deut. 7. 13.

• Deut. 27.5.

Josh. 8. 31.

1 Mac. 4. 47. + Heb. build them with hewing.

8 If she please not her master, who Heb hath betrothed her to himself, then shall, ८.

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, hand her duty of mar-hi Co riage, shall he not diminish.

11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

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

13 And if a man lie not in wait, but

eth.

18 And if men strive together, and one Prov. smite || another with a stone, or with his Matk fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: Or, 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad Or, tupon his staff, then shall he that smote neighb him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be Heb.

thoroughly healed.

t 2 Sam

29.

ceasan

+ Heb.

reged

20 And if a man smite 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 punished: + for "he is his money.