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And it came about on the sixth day, they gathered double bread, two omers for one. And all the leaders of the congregation came and reported to Moses.

And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses commanded. And it did not stink and no maggot was in it.

And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, Fill an omer from it, to keep for your generations, so that they may see the bread which I caused you to eat in the wilderness, as I brought you out from the land of Egypt.

And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until their coming into an inhabited land. They ate the manna until their coming to the border of the land of Canaan.

And all the congregation of the sons of Israel pulled up stakes from the Wilderness of Sin, according to their journeys, by the mouth of Jehovah. And they camped in Rephidim. And there was no water for the drinking of thepeople.

And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do to this people? Yet a little and they will stone me.

And the hands of Moses became heavy. And they took a stone and put it under him. And he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one from this and one from that side . And his hands were steady until the going ofthe sun.

And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed, and kissed him. And they asked each to his neighbor, as to their welfare. And they came into the tent.

And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the trouble which they had found in the way, and Jehovah had delivered them.

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

And you warn them as to the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they should walk, and the work which they should do.

And let them judge the people at all times. And it shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, and every small matter they shall judge. And you make it easy on yourself, and let them bear with you.

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

And they pulled up stakes from Rephidim and came to the wilderness of Sinai. And they camped in the wilderness. And Israel camped there before the mountain.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I come to you in a darkness of clouds, so that the people may hear My speaking with you, and in you they may believe forever. And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah.

And Moses went from the mountain to the people. And he sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

And Moses caused the people to go up from the camp to meet God. And they took their stand at the lower part of the mountain.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down, warn the people lest they break through to gaze at Jehovah, and many of them fall.

And all the people saw the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the ram's horn, and the smoking mountain. And the people looked, and they trembled, and they stood from a distance.

And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will hear. And let us not speak with God, that we not die.