The house of Israel called its name “manna.” It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.

Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians’ control!

On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”

Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;

If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him,

and all the people answered together, “All that the Lord has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the Lord.

You must set boundaries for the people all around, saying, ‘Take heed to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking – and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

“If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

“You must not oppress a foreigner, since you know the life of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

“You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.

They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.

According to all that I am showing you – the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings – you must make it exactly so.