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"The LORD is a warrior; The LORD is His name.

"The waters cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone.

"At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, so that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My instruction.

So it came about at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

then he said to them, "This is what the LORD meant: Tomorrow is a Sabbath observance, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning."

So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and it did not stink nor was there a maggot in it.

Then Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.

Then Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'A full omer of it is to be kept safe throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"

And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put a full omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept safe throughout your generations."

(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "What am I to do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!"

And Moses' hands were heavy. So they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other. So his hands were steady until the sun set.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly wipe out the memory of Amalek from under heaven."

and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for Moses said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land."

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.

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

and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel."