This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness 40 years.

这人领百姓出来，在埃及，在红海，在旷野，四十年间行了奇事神迹。

这人领以色列人出来，在埃及地，在红海，在旷野的四十年间行了奇事神迹。

这人领以色列人出来，在埃及地，在红海，在旷野的四十年间行了奇事神迹。

摩西带领以色列人出埃及，过红海，越旷野，四十年间行了许多神迹奇事。

这人领他们出来，并且在埃及地、红海和旷野，行奇事神迹四十年。

这个人带领以色列子民出来，在埃及地、在红海，并且在旷野的四十年间，行了奇事和神迹。

這人領百姓出來，在埃及，在紅海，在曠野，四十年間行了奇事神蹟。

這人領以色列人出來，在埃及地，在紅海，在曠野的四十年間行了奇事神蹟。

這人領以色列人出來，在埃及地，在紅海，在曠野的四十年間行了奇事神蹟。

摩西帶領以色列人出埃及，過紅海，越曠野，四十年間行了許多神蹟奇事。

這人領他們出來，並且在埃及地、紅海和曠野，行奇事神蹟四十年。

是這個人領族民出來，在埃及、在紅海、在野地、行了奇事神迹四十年。

這個人帶領以色列子民出來，在埃及地、在紅海，並且在曠野的四十年間，行了奇事和神蹟。

彼率民出、行奇事異蹟於埃及紅海、曠野、四十年、

率民出其地、行奇事異跡於埃及、紅海、曠野、四十年、○

彼率民出、行異跡奇事、在伊及、在紅海、在曠野、歷四十年、

率眾而出於埃及、紅海與曠野之中、廣行靈異凡四十年者、即此摩西也。

He led them out of Egypt and performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and for forty years in the wilderness.

So Moses led them out of Egypt. He did wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for 40 years in the desert.

This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

And by means of many wonders and miraculous signs, he led them out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, and through the wilderness for forty years.

This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the Lord’s divisions went out from the land of Egypt.

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back with a powerful east wind all that night and turned the sea into dry land. So the waters were divided,

The Lord spoke to Moses:“ Go, leave here, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to your offspring.

The Lord answered Moses,“ See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.You must say whatever I command you; then Aaron your brother must declare it to Pharaoh so that he will let the Israelites go from his land.But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put My hand on Egypt and bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out My hand against Egypt, and bring out the Israelites from among them.”So Moses and Aaron did this; they did just as the Lord commanded them.Moses was 80 years old and Aaron 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,“ When Pharaoh tells you,‘ Perform a miracle,’ tell Aaron,‘ Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent.’”So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers— the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices.Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.However, Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Pharaoh’s heart is hard: he refuses to let the people go.

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal depth. While the Egyptians were trying to escape from it, the Lord threw them into the sea.The waters came back and covered the chariots and horsemen, the entire army of Pharaoh, that had gone after them into the sea. None of them survived.But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.He sent darkness, and it became dark— for did they not defy His commands?He turned their water into blood and caused their fish to die.Their land was overrun with frogs, even in their royal chambers.He spoke, and insects came— gnats throughout their country.He gave them hail for rain, and lightning throughout their land.He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their territory.He spoke, and locusts came— young locusts without number.They devoured all the vegetation in their land and consumed the produce of their land.He struck all the firstborn in their land, all their first progeny.

The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

Even after they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said,“ This is your God who brought you out of Egypt,” and they had committed terrible blasphemies,You did not abandon them in the wilderness because of Your great compassion. During the day the pillar of cloud never turned away from them, guiding them on their journey. And during the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.You sent Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.You provided for them in the wilderness 40 years and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.You gave them kingdoms and peoples and assigned them to be a boundary. They took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of the land of Og king of Bashan.

He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.He split the sea and brought them across; the water stood firm like a wall.He led them with a cloud by day and with a fiery light throughout the night.He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.He brought streams out of the stone and made water flow down like rivers.But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved.They spoke against God, saying,“ Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out; torrents overflowed. But can He also provide bread or furnish meat for His people?”Therefore, the Lord heard and became furious; then fire broke out against Jacob, and anger flared up against Israelbecause they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.He gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.He rained manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.People ate the bread of angels. He sent them an abundant supply of food.He made the east wind blow in the skies and drove the south wind by His might.He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas.He made them fall in His camp, all around His tent.They ate and were completely satisfied, for He gave them what they craved.Before they had satisfied their desire, while the food was still in their mouths,God’s anger flared up against them, and He killed some of their best men. He struck down Israel’s choice young men.Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe His wonderful works.He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.

not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by their hands to lead them out of the land of Egypt. I disregarded them, says the Lord, because they did not continue in My covenant.

Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these 40 years.

They did not remember His power shown on the day He redeemed them from the foe,when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt and His wonders in the region of Zoan.He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.He sent His burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity— a band of deadly messengers.He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.Fire blazed throughout their assembly; flames consumed the wicked.

The entire Israelite community departed from Elim and came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt.The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.The Israelites said to them,“ If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger!”Then the Lord said to Moses,“ I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow My instructions.On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on other days.”So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites:“ This evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt;in the morning you will see the Lord’s glory because He has heard your complaints about Him. For who are we that you complain about us?”Moses continued,“ The Lord will give you meat to eat this evening and more than enough bread in the morning, for He has heard the complaints that you are raising against Him. Who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the Lord.”Then Moses told Aaron,“ Say to the entire Israelite community,‘ Come before the Lord, for He has heard your complaints.’”As Aaron was speaking to the entire Israelite community, they turned toward the wilderness, and there in a cloud the Lord’s glory appeared.The Lord spoke to Moses,“ I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them: At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will eat bread until you are full. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.”So at evening quail came and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp.When the layer of dew evaporated, there were fine flakes on the desert surface, as fine as frost on the ground.When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another,“ What is it?” because they didn’t know what it was. Moses told them,“ It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.This is what the Lord has commanded:‘ Gather as much of it as each person needs to eat. You may take two quarts per individual, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.’”So the Israelites did this. Some gathered a lot, some a little.

Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night.All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them,“ If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and little children will become plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?”So they said to one another,“ Let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.”Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground in front of the whole assembly of the Israelite community.Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who scouted out the land, tore their clothesand said to the entire Israelite community:“ The land we passed through and explored is an extremely good land.If the Lord is pleased with us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and give it to us.Only don’t rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us. Don’t be afraid of them!”While the whole community threatened to stone them, the glory of the Lord appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.The Lord said to Moses,“ How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them?I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”But Moses replied to the Lord,“ The Egyptians will hear about it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from them.They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are among these people, how You, Lord, are seen face to face, how Your cloud stands over them, and how You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.If You kill this people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of Your fame will declare,‘ Since the Lord wasn’t able to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’“ So now, may my Lord’s power be magnified just as You have spoken:The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.Please pardon the wrongdoing of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your faithful love, just as You have forgiven them from Egypt until now.”The Lord responded,“ I have pardoned them as you requested.Yet as surely as I live and as the whole earth is filled with the Lord’s glory,none of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested Me these 10 times and did not obey Me,will ever see the land I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have despised Me will see it.But since My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me completely, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the lowlands, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.”Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:“ How long must I endure this evil community that keeps complaining about Me? I have heard the Israelites’ complaints that they make against Me.Tell them: As surely as I live,” this is the Lord’s declaration,“ I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.Your corpses will fall in this wilderness— all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you 20 years old or more— because you have complained about Me.I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.I will bring your children whom you said would become plunder into the land you rejected, and they will enjoy it.But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness.Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for 40 years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness.You will bear the consequences of your sins 40 years based on the number of the 40 days that you scouted the land, a year for each day. You will know My displeasure.I, Yahweh, have spoken. I swear that I will do this to the entire evil community that has conspired against Me. They will come to an end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a negative report about the land—those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the Lord.Only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to scout out the land.When Moses reported these words to all the Israelites, the people were overcome with grief.They got up early the next morning and went up the ridge of the hill country, saying,“ Let’s go to the place the Lord promised, for we were wrong.”But Moses responded,“ Why are you going against the Lord’s command? It won’t succeed.Don’t go, because the Lord is not among you and you will be defeated by your enemies.The Amalekites and Canaanites are right in front of you, and you will fall by the sword. The Lord won’t be with you, since you have turned from following Him.”But they dared to go up the ridge of the hill country, even though the ark of the Lord’s covenant and Moses did not leave the camp.Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them as far as Hormah.

Now Korah son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took250 prominent Israelite men who were leaders of the community and representatives in the assembly, and they rebelled against Moses.They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them,“ You have gone too far! Everyone in the entire community is holy, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the Lord’s assembly?”When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.Then he said to Korah and all his followers,“ Tomorrow morning the Lord will reveal who belongs to Him, who is set apart, and the one He will let come near Him. He will let the one He chooses come near Him.Korah, you and all your followers are to do this: take firepans, and tomorrowplace fire in them and put incense on them before the Lord. Then the man the Lord chooses will be the one who is set apart. It is you Levites who have gone too far!”Moses also told Korah,“ Now listen, Levites!Isn’t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the Israelite community to bring you near to Himself, to perform the work at the Lord’s tabernacle, and to stand before the community to minister to them?He has brought you near, and all your fellow Levites who are with you, but you are seeking the priesthood as well.Therefore, it is you and all your followers who have conspired against the Lord! As for Aaron, who is he that you should complain about him?”Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said,“ We will not come!Is it not enough that you brought us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Do you also have to appoint yourself as ruler over us?Furthermore, you didn’t bring us to a land flowing with milk and honey or give us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come!”Then Moses became angry and said to the Lord,“ Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”So Moses told Korah,“ You and all your followers are to appear before the Lord tomorrow— you, they, and Aaron.Each of you is to take his firepan, place incense on it, and present his firepan before the Lord— 250 firepans. You and Aaron are each to present your firepan also.”

Yet He saved them because of His name, to make His power known.He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.He saved them from the hand of the adversary; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.Water covered their foes; not one of them remained.

The entire Israelite community entered the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and they settled in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.There was no water for the community, so they assembled against Moses and Aaron.The people quarreled with Moses and said,“ If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord.Why have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?Why have you led us up from Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It’s not a place of grain, figs, vines, and pomegranates, and there is no water to drink!”Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting. They fell down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.The Lord spoke to Moses,“ Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock.”So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence just as He had commanded him.Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them,“ Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you?”Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,“ Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land I have given them.”These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord, and He showed His holiness to them.Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom,“ This is what your brother Israel says,‘ You know all the hardships that have overtaken us.Our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.When we cried out to the Lord, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the border of your territory.Please let us travel through your land. We won’t travel through any field or vineyard, or drink any well water. We will travel the King’s Highway; we won’t turn to the right or the left until we have traveled through your territory.’”But Edom answered him,“ You must not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword.”“ We will go on the main road,” the Israelites replied to them,“ and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay its price. There will be no problem; only let us travel through on foot.”Yet Edom insisted,“ You must not travel through.” And they came out to confront them with a large force of heavily-armed people.Edom refused to allow Israel to travel through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.

He spread a cloud as a covering and gave a fire to light up the night.They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with bread from heaven.He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a stream in the desert.For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.He brought His people out with rejoicing, His chosen ones with shouts of joy.He gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited what other peoples had worked for.All this happened so that they might keep His statutes and obey His instructions. Hallelujah!

Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?You were shown these things so that you would know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides Him.He let you hear His voice from heaven to instruct you. He showed you His great fire on earth, and you heard His words from the fire.Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation; I said,“ They are a people whose hearts go astray; they do not know My ways.”

And for about 40 years He put up with them in the wilderness;

Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices 40 years in the wilderness?

You led them with a pillar of cloud by day, and with a pillar of fire by night, to illuminate the way they should go.You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them impartial ordinances, reliable instructions, and good statutes and commands.You revealed Your holy Sabbath to them, and gave them commands, statutes, and instruction through Your servant Moses.You provided bread from heaven for their hunger; You brought them water from the rock for their thirst. You told them to go in and possess the land You had sworn to give them.

Today I will begin to put the fear and dread of you on the peoples everywhere under heaven. They will hear the report about you, tremble, and be in anguish because of you.’“ So I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon from the Wilderness of Kedemoth, saying,‘ Let us travel through your land; we will keep strictly to the highway. We will not turn to the right or the left.You can sell us food in exchange for silver so we may eat, and give us water for silver so we may drink. Only let us travel through on foot,just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for us, and the Moabites who live in Ar, until we cross the Jordan into the land the Lord our God is giving us.’But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us travel through his land, for the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to hand him over to you, as has now taken place.“ Then the Lord said to me,‘ See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land to you. Begin to take possession of it.’So Sihon and his whole army came out against us for battle at Jahaz.The Lord our God handed him over to us, and we defeated him, his sons, and his whole army.At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed the people of every city, including the women and children. We left no survivors.We took only the livestock and the spoil from the cities we captured as plunder for ourselves.There was no city that was inaccessible to us, from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead. The Lord our God gave everything to us.But you did not go near the Ammonites’ land, all along the bank of the Jabbok River, the cities of the hill country, or any place that the Lord our God had forbidden.

Now the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, His anger burned, and fire from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down.So that place was named Taberah, because the Lord’s fire had blazed among them.Contemptible people among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites cried again and said,“ Who will feed us meat?We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”The manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.Moses heard the people, family after family, crying at the entrance of their tents. The Lord was very angry; Moses was also provoked.So Moses asked the Lord,“ Why have You brought such trouble on Your servant? Why are You angry with me, and why do You burden me with all these people?Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so You should tell me,‘ Carry them at your breast, as a nursing woman carries a baby,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are crying to me:‘ Give us meat to eat!’I can’t carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me.If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”The Lord answered Moses,“ Bring Me 70 men from Israel known to you as elders and officers of the people. Take them to the tent of meeting and have them stand there with you.Then I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the Spirit who is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.“ Tell the people: Purify yourselves in readiness for tomorrow, and you will eat meat because you cried before the Lord:‘ Who will feed us meat? We really had it good in Egypt.’ The Lord will give you meat and you will eat.You will eat, not for one day, or two days, or five days, or 10 days, or 20 days,but for a whole month— until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes nauseating to you— because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and cried to Him:‘ Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”But Moses replied,“ I’m in the middle of a people with 600,000 foot soldiers, yet You say,‘ I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’If flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”The Lord answered Moses,“ Is the Lord’s power limited? You will see whether or not what I have promised will happen to you.”Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He brought 70 men from the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.Then the Lord descended in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed the Spirit on the 70 elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they never did it again.Two men had remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other Medad; the Spirit rested on them— they were among those listed, but had not gone out to the tent— and they prophesied in the camp.A young man ran and reported to Moses,“ Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth, responded,“ Moses, my lord, stop them!”But Moses asked him,“ Are you jealous on my account? If only all the Lord’s people were prophets and the Lord would place His Spirit on them!”Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.A wind sent by the Lord came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them at the camp all around, three feet off the ground, about a day’s journey in every direction.The people were up all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quail— the one who took the least gathered 50 bushels— and they spread them out all around the camp.While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord’s anger burned against the people, and the Lord struck them with a very severe plague.So they named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved the meat.From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth and remained there.

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew how arrogantly they treated our ancestors. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, both man and beast.He sent signs and wonders against you, Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his officials.He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.He gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance to His people Israel.

In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai.After they departed from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai and camped in the wilderness, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.Moses went up the mountain to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain:“ This is what you must say to the house of Jacob, and explain to the Israelites:‘ You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Me.Now if you will listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine,and you will be My kingdom of priests and My holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites.”After Moses came back, he summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.Then all the people responded together,“ We will do all that the Lord has spoken.” So Moses brought the people’s words back to the Lord.The Lord said to Moses,“ I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you and will always believe you.” Then Moses reported the people’s words to the Lord.And the Lord told Moses,“ Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothesand be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.Put boundaries for the people all around the mountain and say: Be careful that you don’t go up on the mountain or touch its base. Anyone who touches the mountain will be put to death.No hand may touch him; instead he will be stoned or shot with arrows. No animal or man will live. When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they may go up the mountain.”Then Moses came down from the mountain to the people and consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.He said to the people,“ Be prepared by the third day. Do not have sexual relations with women.”On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a loud trumpet sound, so that all the people in the camp shuddered.Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the Lord came down on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.The Lord came down on Mount Sinai at the top of the mountain. Then the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up.

the moon and stars to rule by night. His love is eternal.He struck the firstborn of the Egyptians His love is eternal.and brought Israel out from among them His love is eternal.with a strong hand and outstretched arm. His love is eternal.He divided the Red Sea His love is eternal.and led Israel through, His love is eternal.but hurled Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea. His love is eternal.He led His people in the wilderness. His love is eternal.He struck down great kings His love is eternal.and slaughtered famous kings— His love is eternal.Sihon king of the Amorites His love is eternal.and Og king of Bashan— His love is eternal.and gave their land as an inheritance, His love is eternal.

They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter— that is why it was named Marah.The people grumbled to Moses,“ What are we going to drink?”So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable. He made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah and He tested them there.

On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and it appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.It remained that way continuously: the cloud would cover it, appearing like fire at night.Whenever the cloud was lifted up above the tent, the Israelites would set out; at the place where the cloud stopped, there the Israelites camped.At the Lord’s command the Israelites set out, and at the Lord’s command they camped. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they camped.Even when the cloud stayed over the tabernacle many days, the Israelites carried out the Lord’s requirement and did not set out.Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days. They would camp at the Lord’s command and set out at the Lord’s command.Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning; when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out. Or if it remained a day and a night, they moved out when the cloud lifted.Whether it was two days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set out as long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle. But when it was lifted, they set out.They camped at the Lord’s command, and they set out at the Lord’s command. They carried out the Lord’s requirement according to His command through Moses.

tell him,‘ We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.Before our eyes the Lord inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household,