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They gathered it every morning. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat, but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

For six days you may gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none."

Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any.

The entire Israelite community left the Wilderness of Sin, moving from one place to the next according to the Lord 's command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

But the people thirsted there for water, and grumbled against Moses. They said, "Why did you ever bring us out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"

While Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, but whenever he put his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating bribes. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

They should judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you every important case but judge every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your load, and they will bear it with you.

They judged the people at all times; they would bring the hard cases to Moses, but they would judge every minor case themselves.

But Moses responded to the Lord , "The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since You warned us: Put a boundary around the mountain and consider it holy."

And the Lord replied to him, "Go down and come back with Aaron. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the Lord , or He will break out in anger against them."

but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates.

"You speak to us, and we will listen," they said to Moses, "but don't let God speak to us, or we will die."

"But if the slave declares: ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,'

But if he didn't intend any harm, and yet God caused it to happen by his hand, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.

"When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,

"When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman's husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

"When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox's owner is innocent.

the owner of the pit must give compensation; he must pay money to its owner, but the dead animal will become his.