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And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.

And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?

In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai.

And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children of Israel:

And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven

If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord.

And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink.

And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.

Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.

And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.

Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times.

Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning, before the Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the children of Israel.

Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.

You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the children of Israel are to be cut: