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Yah is my strength and song,And He has become my salvation;This is my God, and I will praise Him;My father's God, and I will extol Him.

And He said, "If you will earnestly listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, Yahweh, am your healer."

"I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread, so that you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"

So Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will take my stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."

Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

And the other was named Eliezer, for he said, "The God of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh."

Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped, at the mount of God.

Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law before God.

And Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

When they have a matter, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor and make known the statutes of God and His laws."

Now listen to my voice: I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You be the people's representative before God, and you bring the matters to God;

But you shall select excellent men out of all the people, those who fear God, men of truth, those who hate greedy gain; and you shall place these men over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace."

Now Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him from the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel:

And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

And the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder; then Moses spoke and God answered him with thunder.

Then God spoke all these words, saying,

"I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

"You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.