&#8220;Tell the Israelites that they must turn and camp<n id="1" /> before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you are to camp by the sea before Baal Zephon opposite it.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When it was reported<n id="1" /> to the king of Egypt that the people had fled,<n id="2" /> the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,<n id="3" /> &#8220;What in the world have we done?<n id="4" /> For we have released the people of Israel<n id="5" /> from serving us!&#8221;

It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud<n id="1" /> and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other<n id="2" /> the whole night.<n id="3" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses and the Israelites sang<n id="2" /> this song to the <sc>Lordsc>. They said,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will sing<n id="4" /> to the <sc>Lord,sc> for he has triumphed gloriously,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">the horse and its rider<n id="6" /> he has thrown into the sea.p>

<p class="poetry">For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea,p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> brought back the waters of the sea on them,p> <p class="poetry">but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.&#8221;p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="2" /> they journeyed from Elim, the entire company<n id="3" /> of Israelites came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus<n id="4" /> from the land of Egypt.

The Israelites said to them, &#8220;If only we had died<n id="1" /> by the hand of the <sc>Lordsc> in the land of Egypt, when we sat by<n id="2" /> the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full,<n id="3" /> for you have brought us out into this desert to kill<n id="4" /> this whole assembly with hunger!&#8221;p>

&#8220;I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them, &#8216;During the evening<n id="1" /> you will eat meat,<n id="2" /> and in the morning you will be satisfied<n id="3" /> with bread, so that you may know<n id="4" /> that I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

When<n id="1" /> the Israelites saw it, they said to one another,<n id="2" /> &#8220;What is it?&#8221; because they did not know what it was.<n id="3" /> Moses said to them, &#8220;It is the bread<n id="4" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> has given you for food.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go over before the people;<n id="1" /> take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.

I will be standing<n id="1" /> before you there on<n id="2" /> the rock in Horeb, and you will strike<n id="3" /> the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.&#8221;<n id="4" /> And Moses did so in plain view<n id="5" /> of the elders of Israel.p>

<p class="bodytext">He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> saying, &#8220;Is the <sc>Lordsc> among us or not?&#8221;p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses&#8217; father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> had brought Israel out of Egypt.<n id="3" />p>

Moses told his father-in-law all that the <sc>Lordsc> had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel&#8217;s sake, and all the hardship<n id="1" /> that had come on them<n id="2" /> along the way, and how<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> had delivered them.p>

Then Jethro, Moses&#8217; father-in-law, brought<n id="1" /> a burnt offering and sacrifices for God,<n id="2" /> and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food<n id="3" /> with the father-in-law of Moses before God.p>

Moses chose capable men from all Israel, and he made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

and Moses wrote down all the words of the <sc>Lordsc>. Early in the morning he built<n id="1" /> an altar at the foot<n id="2" /> of the mountain and arranged<n id="3" /> twelve standing stones<n id="4" /> &#8211; according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

I will meet with you there,<n id="1" /> and<n id="2" /> from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.p>

In the tent of meeting<n id="1" /> outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to arrange it from evening<n id="2" /> to morning before the <sc>Lordsc>. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for generations to come.<n id="3" />p>