People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
MOSES APPOINTS RULERS TO JUDEGE ISRAEL
Moses Appoints Rulers to Judge Israel. You shall teach them the decrees and laws. You shall show them the way they are to live and the work they are to do.
Furthermore, you shall select from all the people competent men who [reverently] fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; you shall place these over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.
MOSES TELLS JETHRO OF GODS GOODNESS
Moses told his father-in-law about all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and about all the hardship that had happened during the journey, and how the LORD had rescued them.
WATER FROM THE ROCK AND VICTORY OVER AMALEK
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; there you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may [have something to] drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. So Joshua overwhelmed and defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
DAILY FOOD AND ITS MEMORIAL
Then Moses said, “This is the word which the LORD commands, ‘Let an omer 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.'”
MURMURING FOR FOOD REBUKED
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will cause bread to rain from heaven for you; the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, so that I may test them [to determine] whether or not they will walk [obediently] in My instruction (law).
And it shall be that on the sixth day, they shall prepare to bring in twice as much as they gather daily [so that they will not need to gather on the seventh day].” the Sabbath.
MARAH’S WATER SWEETENED AND ELIM’S REST
Marah’s Waters Sweetened And Elim’s Rest. Then they came to Marah, but they could not drink its waters because they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah (bitter). Then the children of Israel came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters.
MOSES’ SONG OF PRAISE TO JEHOVAH
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, singing, “I will sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously; The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea.
THE EGYPTIANS DESTROYED IN THE SEA
The waters returned and covered the chariots and the charioteers, and all the army of Pharaoh that had gone into the sea after them; not even one of them survived.
THE MURMURING PEOPLE ENCOURAGED
Then Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid! Take your stand [be firm and confident and undismayed] and see the salvation of the LORD which He will accomplish for you today; for those Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see again.
PILLARS OF CLOUD AND FIRE
Pillars Of Cloud And Fire. The [presence of the] LORD was going before them by day in a pillar (column) of cloud to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, so that they could travel by day and by night.
He did not withdraw the pillar of cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from going before the people.