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And the children of Israel did eat manna for forty years until they came to an inhabited land; they did eat manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

And the people thirsted there for water; and they murmured against Moses, and said to him, Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

And Moses prayed to the LORD, saying. What shall I do with this people? They were almost ready to stone me.

And he called the name of the place Nassah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the children of Israel, and because they tested the LORD, saying, Let us see if the LORD is among us or not?

But Moses hands became tired; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, the one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

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 went into the tent.

And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israels sake, and all the travail that they had suffered on the journey, and how the LORD had delivered them.

And when they have a controversy, they come to me; and I judge between one and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.

And you shall warn them to keep the ordinances and laws that you may show them how to conduct themselves and the works that they must do.

Let them judge the people at all times; and when they have an important matter, let them come to you; but every small matter they shall judge for themselves; so it shall be easier for you, and they shall bear the burden with you.

And they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Then they journeyed from Rephidim and came to the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mountain.

And Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

Then Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the base of the mountain.

And the LORD said to Moses, Go down, warn the people, test they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.

And all the people observed the thunderings and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw all of this, they were afraid and they stood afar off.

And they said to Moses, You speak to us, and we will listen; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

And if one mans ox gores another mans ox so that it dies; then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

If you harm them, and they pray before me, I will surely hear their prayer;

For they are his only covering, it is his raiment for his body; with what shall he sleep? And if he prays before me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate.