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But on the sixth day of each week they must gather and cook twice as much."

Then Moses continued, "You will know it is the Lord when he gives you meat each evening and more than enough bread each morning. He is really the one you are complaining about, not us—we are nobodies—but the Lord has heard your complaints."

Some of them disobeyed, but the next morning what they kept was stinking and full of worms, and Moses was angry.

You will find it there for the first six days of the week, but not on the Sabbath."

A few of the Israelites did go out to look for some, but there was none.

The Israelites left the desert and moved from one place to another each time the Lord ordered them to. Once they camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for them to drink.

But the people were thirsty and kept on complaining, "Moses, did you bring us out of Egypt just to let us and our families and our animals die of thirst?"

The Israelites out-fought the Amalekites as long as Moses held up his arms, but they started losing whenever he had to lower them.

Then Moses explained, "This is because I depended on the Lord . But in future generations, the Lord will have to fight the Amalekites again."

They served as judges, deciding the easy cases themselves, but bringing the more difficult ones to Moses.

but you will be my holy nation and serve me as priests. Moses, that is what you must tell the Israelites.

Then the Lord told Moses, "Go down and bring Aaron back here with you. But the priests and people must not try to push their way through, or I will rush at them like a flood!"

But if you love me and obey my laws, I will be kind to your families for thousands of generations.

but the seventh day of each week belongs to me, your God. No one is to work on that day—not you, your children, your slaves, your animals, or the foreigners who live in your towns.

In six days I made the sky, the earth, the oceans, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That's why I made the Sabbath a special day that belongs to me.

and said to Moses, "If you speak to us, we will listen. But don't let God speak to us, or we will die!"

But when Moses went near the thick cloud where God was, the people stayed a long way off.

If you buy a Hebrew slave, he must remain your slave for six years. But in the seventh year you must set him free, without cost to him.

If he was single at the time you bought him, he alone must be set free. But if he was married at the time, both he and his wife must be given their freedom.

But suppose the slave loves his wife and children so much that he won't leave without them.