Exodus 16:32   (Read all of Exodus 16)

Moses said, "This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.' "

Exodus 16:33   (Read all of Exodus 16)

So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the Lord to be kept for the generations to come."

Exodus 16:34   (Read all of Exodus 16)

As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna with the tablets of the covenant law, so that it might be preserved.

Exodus 16:35   (Read all of Exodus 16)

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

Exodus 17:1   (Read all of Exodus 17)

The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

Exodus 17:2   (Read all of Exodus 17)

So they quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?"

Exodus 17:3   (Read all of Exodus 17)

But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?"

Exodus 17:4   (Read all of Exodus 17)

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, "What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

Exodus 17:5   (Read all of Exodus 17)

The Lord answered Moses, "Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

Exodus 17:6   (Read all of Exodus 17)

I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Exodus 17:7   (Read all of Exodus 17)

And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?"

Exodus 17:9   (Read all of Exodus 17)

Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands."

Exodus 17:10   (Read all of Exodus 17)

So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill.

Exodus 17:12   (Read all of Exodus 17)

When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up-one on one side, one on the other-so that his hands remained steady till sunset.

Exodus 17:13   (Read all of Exodus 17)

So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

Exodus 17:14   (Read all of Exodus 17)

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven."

Exodus 17:16   (Read all of Exodus 17)

He said, "Because hands were lifted up against the throne of the Lord, the Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation."

Exodus 18:2   (Read all of Exodus 18)

After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro received her

Exodus 18:3   (Read all of Exodus 18)

and her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses said, "I have become a foreigner in a foreign land";

Exodus 18:4   (Read all of Exodus 18)

and the other was named Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my helper; he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh."

Exodus 18:5   (Read all of Exodus 18)

Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, together with Moses' sons and wife, came to him in the wilderness, where he was camped near the mountain of God.

Exodus 18:6   (Read all of Exodus 18)

Jethro had sent word to him, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons."

Exodus 18:7   (Read all of Exodus 18)

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent.

Exodus 18:8   (Read all of Exodus 18)

Moses told his father-in-law about everything the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the Lord had saved them.