Joshua discomfits Amalek.

EXODUS. Moses is counselled by Jethro.

his hands were steady until the going down and the people stood by Moses from the of the sun. morning unto the evening. 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and 14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw his people with the edge of the sword. all that he did to the people, he said, What

14 And the LORD said unto Moses, is this thing that thou doest to the people? Write this for a memorial in a book, and Why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will people stand by thee from morning unto utterly put out the remembrance of Ama-even? lek from under heaven.

15 T And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAH-nissi :

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

WHEN Jethro the priest of Midian,

W Moses' father-in-law, heard of all

that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD bad brought Israel out of Egypt:

2 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; (for he 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 my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh :).

15 And Moses said unto his father-inlaw, Because the people come 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.

18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.

19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:

20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

21 Moreover, thou shalt provide out of 5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, all the people, able men, such as fear God, came with his sons and his wife unto Mo- men of truth, hating covetousness; and ses into the wilderness, where he encamp-place such over them to be rulers of thoued at the mount of God: sands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

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

7 T 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, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

22 And let them judge the people at all seasons and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: 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 9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the good-his father-in-law, and did all that he had ness which the LORD had done to Israel, said. whom he had delivered out of the hand of 25 And Moses chose able men out of all 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.

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 brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein 27 And Moses let his father-in-law dethey dealt proudly, he was above them. part: and he went his way into his own 12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, land. took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for

God: and Aaron came, and all the elders Ν

CHAP. XIX.

of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father IN the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

in-law before God.

13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people:

2 For they were departed from Rephi

God's message to the Israelites.

CHAP. XX.

The ten commandments.

dim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on and had pitched in the wilderness; and a smoke, because the LORD descended there Israel encamped before the mount. upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof as3 ¶ And Moses went up unto God, and cended as the smoke of a furnace, and the the LORD called unto him out of the moun- whole mount quaked greatly. tain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of sounded long, and waxed louder and loudIsrael; er, Moses spake, and God answered him

19 And when the voice of the trumpet

4 Ye have seen what I did unto the by a voice. Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' 20 And the LORD came down upon wings, and brought you unto myself. mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my the LORD called Moses up to the top of voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then the mount; and Moses went up. ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me 21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go above all people: for all the earth is mine: down, charge the people, lest they break 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of priests, and a holy nation. These are of them perish. the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded hiin.

8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses 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.

10 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and to-morrow, and let them wash

their clothes,

22 And let the priests also which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.

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.

AND God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before

me.

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. 12 T And thou shalt set bounds unto the 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any people round about, saying, Take heed to graven image, or any likeness of any thing yourselves, that ye go not up into the that is in heaven above, or that is in the mount, or touch the border of it: whoso-earth beneath, or that is in the water unever toucheth the mount shall be surely der the earth:

put to death:

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to 13 There shall not a hand touch it, but them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy he shall surely be stoned or shot through: God am a jealous God, visiting the inwhether it be beast or man, it shall not quity of the fathers upon the children unto live: when the trumpet soundeth long, the third and fourth generation of them they shall come up to the mount. that hate me;

14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

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

15 And he said unto the people, Be 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the ready against the third day: come not at LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will your wives. not hold him guiltless that taketh his naine

16 And it came to pass on the third in vain. day in the morning, that there were thun- 8 Remember the sabbath-day to keep ders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon it holy.

the mount, and the voice of the trumpet 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all exceeding loud; so that all the people that thy work: was in the camp trembled.

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath 17 And Moses brought forth the people of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not out of the camp to meet with God; and do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy they stood at the nether part of the mount. daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid

Idolatry forbidden.

EXODUS.

Sundry laws and ordinances.

servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger and she have borne him sons or daughters, that is within thy gates: the wife and her children shall be her mas

11 For in six days the LORD made ter's, and he shall go out by himself. heaven and earth, the sea and all that in 5 T And if the servant shall plainly say, them is, and rested the seventh day: I love my master, my wife, and my chilwherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath- dren; I will not go out free: day, and hallowed it.

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

13 Thou shalt not kill."

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal.

6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges: he shall also 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.

7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness men-servants do. against thy neighbour.

8 If she please not her master, who hath 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's betrothed her to himself, then shall he let house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid- nation he shall have no power, seeing he servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any hath dealt deceitfully with her. thing that is thy neighbour's. 9 And if he have betrothed her unto his 18 T And all the people saw the thun- son, he shall deal with her after the manderings, and the lightnings, and the noise ner of daughters. of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

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, Fear not for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

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

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.

10 If he take him another wife; ber 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. 12 T He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

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

16 T And he that stealeth a man, and

23 Ye shall not make with me gods of selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, silver, neither shall ye make unto you he shall surely be put to death. gods of gold.

24 T 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 all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless 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.

26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

CHAP. XXI.

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

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 that sinote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

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 money.

TOW these are the judgments which he is his thou shalt set before them.

NOW

22 ¶ If men strive, and hurt a woman 2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six with child, so that her fruit depart from years he shall serve and in the seventh her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall he shall go out free for nothing. be surely punished, according as the wo3 If he came in by himself, he shall go man's husband will lay upon him; and he out by himself: if he were married, then shall pay as the judges determine. his wife shall go out with him. 23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

4 If his master have given him a wife,