saying: "God shall visit you, carry out my bones whom you see now, you shall see no more for from hence with you.

20 And marching from Socoth they encamped in Etham in the utmost coasts of the wilderness.

21 And the Lord went before them to shew the way by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire: that he might be the guide of their journey at both times.

22 There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.

CHAP. XIV.

Pharao pursueth the children of Israel. They murmur against Moses, but are encouraged by him, and pass through the Red Sea. Pharao and his army following them are drowned.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over against Phiahiroth which is between Magdal and the sea over against Beelsephon: you shall encamp before it upon the sea.

3 And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the de

sert hath shut them in.

4 And I shall harden his heart, and he will, pursue you and I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

5 And it was told the king of the Egyptians that the people was fled: and the heart of Pharao and of his servants was changed with regard to the people, and they said: What meant we to do, that we let Israel go from serving us? 6 So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him.

7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots that were in Egypt: and the captains of the whole army.

8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel: but they were gone forth in a mighty hand. 9 And when the Egyptians followed the steps of them who were gone before, they found them encamped at the sea side: all Pharao's horse and chariots, and the whole army were in Phihahiroth before Beelsephon.

10 And when Pharao drew near, the children of Israel lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians behind them: and they feared exceedingly, and cried to the Lord.

11 And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt? 12 Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying: Depart from us, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it was much better to serve them, than to die in the wilderness.

13 And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand and see the great wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day: for the Egyptians,

Gen. 50. 24. Num. 14. 14. 2 Esdr. 9. 12. & 13. 1 Cor. 19.

1-Jos. 24. 6. 1 Mac. 4. 9.-d Ps. 77. 13. & 104. 37. & 113. 3. Heb. 11. 29.- Wied. 18. 15.

Ch. 14. v. 20. A dark cloud, and enlightening the night. It was a dark cloud to the Egyptians; but enlightened the night to the Israelites, by giving them a great light.

ever.

14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.

15And the Lord said to Moses:why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel to go forward. 16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it: that the children of Israel may go through the midst of the sea on dry ground.

17 And I will harden the heart of the Egyptians to pursue you and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen.

18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in his chariots and in his horsemen, 19 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removing, went behind them: and together with him the pillar of the cloud, leaving the fore-part,

20 Stood behind, between the Egyptians' camp and the camp of Israel: and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that they could not come at one another all the night. 21 And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.

22 And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up: for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursuing went in after them, and all Pharao's horses, his chariots and horsemen through the midst of the sea. 24 And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking upon the Egyp tian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew their host.

25 And overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried into the deep. And the Egyptians said: Let us flee from Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them against us. 26 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and horsemen.

27 And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves.

28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the army of neither did there so much as one of them remain. Pharao, who had come into the sea after them, 29 But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand 30 And the Lord delivered Israel on that day and on the left: out of the hands of the Egyptians. 31 And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the had used against them: and the people feared sea shore, and the mighty hand that the Lord the Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Mo

ses his servant.

| 21 And she began the song to them, saying: The canticle of Moses. The bitter waters of Mara are Let us sing to the Lord, for he is gloriously

sung

CHAP. XV.

made sweet.

THEN
HEN Moses and the children of Israel
this canticle to the Lord: and said:
Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously
magnified, the horse and the rider he hath

thrown into the sea.

2 The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

3 The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name.

4 Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned

in the Red Sea.

5 The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

6 Thy right hand, O Lord, is magnified in strength: thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain

the enemy.

7 And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble. 8 And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them. 10 Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

11 Who is like to thee, among the strong, O

Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness,
terrible and praise-worthy, doing wonders?
12 Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the

earth swallowed them.

13 In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy ha

bitation.

14 Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim.

15 Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all

the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff.

16 Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: let them become unmoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed.

17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have

established.

18 The Lord shall reign for ever and ever. 19 For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the

Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof.

20 So Mary the prophetess the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with

dances:

*Wisd. 10. 20 —b Ps. 117. 14. Isa. 12. 2.— Judith, 5. 15. Ec.

cli. 38. 5. Num. 33. 9.- Wind. 11. 2- A. M. 2513.

thrown into the sea.

magnified, the horse and his rider he hath 22 And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water.

23 And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of Mara, because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness.

saying: What shall we drink?
24 And the people murmured against Moses,

25 But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed
him a tree, which when he had cast into the
waters, they were turned into sweetness. There
and there he proved him,
he appointed him ordinances, and judgments,

26 Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the and obey his commandments, and keep all his Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer.

27 And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped by the

waters.

CHAP. XVI.

The people murmur for want of meat: God giveth them quails and manna.

AND they set forward from Elim, and all the

multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt.f 2 And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

3 And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the flesh-pots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine? 4 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you: let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or no.

5 But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day.

6 And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel: In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt:

7 And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we, that you mutter against us?

8 And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.

28 And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

9 Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole con- the people going forth to gather, found none. gregation of the children of Israel: Come before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring. 10 And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, they looked towards the wildernesss: *and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.

11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 12 I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel; say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

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13 So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.

14 And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar-frost on the ground.

15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread, which the Lord hath given you to eat.

16 This is the word, that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat: a gomor for every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take of it.

17 And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.

18 And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more that had gathered more: nor did he find less that had provided less: but every one had gathered, according to what

they were able to eat.

19 And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning.

20 And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrefied, and Moses was angry with them.

21 Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.

22 But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told Moses. 23 And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To-morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it: and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them: and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning. 24 And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrefy, neither was there worm found in it.

25 And Moses said: Eat it to-day, because it is the Sabbath of the Lord: to-day it shall not be found in the field.

26 Gather it six days: but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.

27 And the seventh day came: and some of

Eccli. 45. 3. Num. 11. 31.- Supra, 16. 20. Num. 11. 7. Ps. 77. 24. John 6. 31. 1 Cor. 10. 3. 2 Cor. 8. 15.-f2 Esdr. 9.21. Judith, 5. 15. A. M. 2513.-h Num. 20. 41.-i Supra, 14. 21. Ps. 77. 15. 1 Cor. 10. 4.-k Deut. 25. 17. Judith 4. 13. Wisd. 11. 3.

29 See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the, seventh day.

30 And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.

31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey. 32 And Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt. 33 And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel. and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold: and lay it up before the Lord to keep unto your generations.

And

34 As the Lord commanded Moses. Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept. 35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan. 36 Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi. CHAP. XVII.

The people murmur again for want of drink, the Lord giveth them water out of a rock. Moses lifting up his hand in prayer, Amalec is overcome.

THEN all the multitude of the children of

Israel setting forward from the desert of Sin, by their mansions, according to the word of the Lord, encamped in Raphidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. 2 And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?

3 So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?

4 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.

5 And the Lord said to Moses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, i and go. 6 Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:

7 And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not? 8 And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.

9 And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men: and go out and fight against Amalec: to-mor

row I will stand on the top of the hill having holocausts and sacrifices to God: and the rod of God in my hand. and all the ancients of Israel came, to ea with him before God.

10 Josue did as Moses had spoken, and he fought against Amalec; but Moses, and Aaron, and Hur went up upon the top of the hill. 11 And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame: but if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame.

12 And Moses's hands were heavy so they took a stone, and put under him, and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on both sides. And it came to pass that his hands were not weary until sunset.

13 And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the sword.

14 And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue: for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven.

15 And Moses built an altar: and called the name thereof, The Lord my exaltation, saying: 16 Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation. CHAP. XVIII.

Jethro bringeth to Moses his wife and children. His

counsel.

AND when Jethro the priest of Madian,

the kinsman of Moses, had heard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt.

2 He took Sephora the wife of Moses whom he had sent back:

13 And the next day Moses sat to jud people, who stood by Moses from mornin night.

14 And when his kinsman had seen all that he did among the people, he said: is it that thou dost among the people? sittest thou alone, and all the people wa morning till night.

15 And Moses answered him: The come to me to seek the judgment of G 16 And when any controversy falleth out them, they come to me to judge between and to shew the precepts of God, and his 17 But he said: The thing thou dost is no 18 Thou art spent with foolish labour, bo and this people that is with thee: the busi above thy strength, thou alone canst not 19 But hear my words and counsels, an shall be with thee. Be thou to the ped those things that pertain to God, to bring words to him:

20 And to shew the people the cerem and the manner of worshipping, and th wherein they ought to walk, and the wor they ought to do.

21 And provide out of all the people able such as fear God, in whom there is truth, a hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of sands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and o 22 Who may judge the people at all let them refer it to thee, and let them ju and when any great matter soever shall fa lesser matters only: that so it may be l for thee, the burden being shared out unto o 4 And the other Eliezer: For the God of my 23 If thou dost this, thou shalt fulfil the father, said he, is my helper, and hath deliver-mandment of God, and shalt be able t ed me from the sword of Pharao.

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3 And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam, his father saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country.

5 And Jethro the kinsman of Moses came with his sons and his wife, to Moses into the desert, where he was camped by the mountain of God. 6 And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro thy kinsman come to thee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her.

7 And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed him: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was come into the tent,

8 Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.

9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had done to Israel, because he had

his

their places with peace.
precepts: and all this people shall ret

24 And when Moses heard this, he d
things that he had suggested unto him.
25 And choosing able men out of all I
he appointed them rulers of the people,
over thousands. and over hundreds, and
fifties, and over tens.

26 And they judged the people at all time whatsoever was of greater difficulty they re to him, and they judged the easier cases 27 And he let his kinsman depart: and turned and went into his own country.

CHAP. XIX.

They come to Sinai: the people are commanded sanctified. The Lord, coming in thunder and ning, speaketh with Moses.

delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians. I

10 And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of Pharao, and out of the hand of the Egyptians, who hath delivered his people out of the hand of Egypt: 11 Now I know that the Lord is great above all gods: because they dealt proudly against them. 12 So Jethro the kinsman of Moses offered A. M. 2514. A. C. 1490.— Supra, 2. 22. — Supra, 1. 14.

A

& 5. 7 & 10. 10. & 14. 8.- Deut. 1. 12- Num. 20. 29.f Num. 33. 15.- Acts, 7. 38-h Deut. 29. 2.

the third month of the departure of 1 fout of the land of Egypt, on this day 2 For departing out of Raphidim, and co came into the wilderness of Sinai: to the desert of Sinai, they camped in the place, and there Israel pitched their tents against the mountain.

3 And Moses went up to God: and the called unto him from the mountain, and Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, tell the children of Israel:

4 You have seen what I have done to Egyptians, how I have carried you upon

wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself. the limits to see the Lord, and a very great mul5 If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep titude of them should perish. my covenant, you shall be my peculiar posses- 22 The priests also that come to the Lord, let sion above all people: for all the earth is mine. them be sanctified, lest he strike them. 6 And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, 23 And Moses said to the Lord: The people and a holy nation. These are the words thou cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou didst shalt speak to the children of Israel. charge, and command, saying: Set limits about the mount, and sanctify it.

24 And the Lord said to him: Go, get thee down: and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron 8 And all the people answered together: All that with thee: but let not the priests and the people the Lord hath spoken, we will do. And when Mo-pass the limits, nor come up to the Lord, lest ses had related the people's words to the Lord, he kill them.

9 The Lord said to him: Lo, now will I come 25 And Moses went down to the people and to thee in the darkness of a cloud, that the peo- told them all. ple may hear me speaking to thee, and may believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord.

20 And the Lord came down upon mount
Sinai, in the very top of the mount, and he cal-thy neighbour.
led Moses unto the top thereof. And when he
was gone up thither,

21 He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people: lest they should have a mind to pass

Ps. 23. 1.-1 Pet. 2. 9.- Heb. 12. 18.- Deut. 4. 11.

A. M. 2513. Deut. 5. 6. Ps. 80. 11.-Lev. 26. 1. Deut. 4. 15. Jos. 24. 14. Ps. 96. 7. Lev. 19. 12. Deut. 5. 11. Mat. 5. 33. Infra, 31. 13. Deut. 5. 14. Ezec. 20. 12. Gen. 2. 2.- Deut. 5. 16. Mat. 15. 4. Eph. 6. 2.- Mat. 5. 21. Rom. 7. 7. & 13. 9.

Ch. 20. v. 4. A graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing, &c. All such images or liknesses, are forbidden by this commandment, as are made to be adored and served; according to that which immediately follows,