Daily
Feast
(24th
Day)
Exodus 16:31 - 20:12
This
section is designed to read the entire Bible in a year, i.e., in 365 days. The
total verses of the entire Bible are equally divided into 365 parts.
Exodus
16
31
The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed,
white; and its taste was like wafers with honey. 32 Moses said, “This is the
thing which Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout
your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ” 33 Moses said to
Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before
Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.” 34 As Yahweh commanded Moses,
so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 The children of Israel
ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the
manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. 36 Now an omer is
one tenth of an ephah.
17
1
All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of
Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but
there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Therefore the people quarreled
with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.”
Moses
said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
3
The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses,
and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children,
and our livestock with thirst?”
4
Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are
almost ready to stone me.”
5
Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel
with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike
the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did
so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 He called the name of the place
Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they
tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
8
Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9 Moses said to Joshua,
“Choose men for us, and go out to fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on
the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.” 10 So Joshua did as Moses had
told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top
of the hill. 11 When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down
his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a
stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands,
the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady
until sunset. 13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the
sword. 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and
rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of
Amalek from under the sky.” 15 Moses built an altar, and called its name
“Yahweh our Banner”. 16 He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with
Amalek from generation to generation.’ ”
18
1
Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God
had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out
of Egypt. 2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after
he had sent her away, 3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for
Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”. 4 The name of the
other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me
from Pharaoh’s sword.” 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons
and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the
Mountain of God. 6 He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come
to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”
7
Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked
each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent. 8 Moses told his
father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for
Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how
Yahweh delivered them. 9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had
done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10 Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of
the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people
from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than
all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.” 12 Jethro,
Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came
with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before
God.
13
On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around
Moses from the morning to the evening. 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all
that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the
people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning
to evening?”
15
Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of
God. 16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and
his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.” 17
Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good. 18 You
will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the
thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone. 19
Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You
represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God. 20 You shall
teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they
must walk, and the work that they must do. 21 Moreover you shall provide out of
all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and
place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens. 22 Let them judge the people at all times. It
shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small
matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they
shall share the load with you. 23 If you will do this thing, and God commands
you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to
their place in peace.”
24
So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had
said. 25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the
people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers
of tens. 26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to
Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 27 Moses let his
father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
19
1 In
the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt,
on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 When they had
departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped
in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain. 3 Moses went
up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what
you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: 4 ‘You have
seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and
brought you to myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and
keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples;
for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a
holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of
Israel.”
7
Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all
these words which Yahweh commanded him. 8 All the people answered together, and
said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.”
Moses
reported the words of the people to Yahweh. 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I
come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you,
and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to
Yahweh. 10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and
tomorrow, and let them wash their garments, 11 and be ready for the third day;
for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on
Mount Sinai. 12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be
careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever
touches the mountain shall be surely put to death. 13 No hand shall touch him,
but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he
shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the
mountain.”
14
Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and
they washed their clothes. 15 He said to the people, “Be ready by the third
day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”
16
On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and
a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet;
and all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 Moses led the people out
of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. 18
All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its
smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked
greatly. 19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke,
and God answered him by a voice. 20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top
of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went
up.
21
Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to
Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish. 22 Let the priests also, who come near
to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”
23
Moses said to Yahweh, “The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned
us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.’ ”
24
Yahweh said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let
the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break
out against them.”
25
So Moses went down to the people, and told them.
20
1
God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3
“You shall have no other gods before me.
4
“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is
in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth: 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for
I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on
the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my
commandments.
7
“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him
guiltless who misuses his name.
8
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 You shall labor six days, and do
all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You
shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male
servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is
within your gates; 11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed
the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you.
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