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And Moses said to Aaron, "Say to all the community of the Israelites, ‘Come near before Yahweh because he has heard your grumblings.'"

And the Israelites saw, and they said to each other, "What is this?" because they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "That is the bread that Yahweh has given to you as food.

And Moses said, "Eat it today, because today is a Sabbath for Yahweh. Today you will not find it in the field.

See, because Yahweh has given to you the Sabbath, therefore he is giving to you on the sixth day bread for two days. Stay, each in his location; let no one go from his place on the seventh day."

And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the Israelites and because of their testing Yahweh by saying, "Is Yahweh in our midst or not?"

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in the scroll and recite it in the hearing of Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens."

And he said, "Because a hand was against the throne of Yah, a war will be for Yahweh with Amalek from generation to generation."

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

Surely you will wear out, both you and this people who are with you, because the thing is too difficult for you. You are not able to do it alone.

and they must be prepared for the third day, because on the third day, Yahweh will go down on Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people.

Not a hand will touch it, because he will certainly be stoned or certainly be shot; whether an animal or a man, he will not live.' At the blowing of the ram's horn they may go up to the mountain."

And Mount Sinai was all wrapped in smoke because Yahweh went down on it in the fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.

And Moses said to Yahweh, "The people are not able to go up to Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.'"

You will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I am Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing the guilt of the parents on the children on the third and on the fourth generations of those hating me,

"You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, because Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who misuses his name.

because in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and on the seventh day he rested. Therefore Yahweh blessed the seventh day and consecrated it.

And if you make an altar of stones for me, you will not build them as hewn stone, because if you use your chisel on it, you have defiled it.

Yet if he survives a day or two days, he will not be avenged, because he is his money.

"‘You will not mistreat an alien, and you will not oppress him, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

because it is his only garment; it is his cloak for his skin. In what will he sleep? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, because I am gracious.