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Welcome to Reading the Bible in a Year Day 20.

Today were reading Exodus 14, Exodus 15 and Exodus 16.

Exodus Chapter 14

Exo 14:1  At Etham the LORD said to Moses:
Exo 14:2  Tell the people of Israel to turn back and camp across from Pi-Hahiroth near Baal-Zephon, between Migdol and the Red Sea.
Exo 14:3  The king will think they were afraid to cross the desert and that they are wandering around, trying to find another way to leave the country.
Exo 14:4  I will make the king stubborn again, and he will try to catch you. Then I will destroy him and his army. People everywhere will praise me for my victory, and the Egyptians will know that I really am the LORD. The Israelites obeyed the LORD and camped where he told them.
Exo 14:5  When the king of Egypt heard that the Israelites had finally left, he and his officials changed their minds and said, “Look what we have done! We let them get away, and they will no longer be our slaves.”
Exo 14:6  The king got his war chariot and army ready.
Exo 14:7  He commanded his officers in charge of his six hundred best chariots and all his other chariots to start after the Israelites.
Exo 14:8  The LORD made the king so stubborn that he went after them, even though the Israelites proudly went on their way.
Exo 14:9  But the king’s horses and chariots and soldiers caught up with them while they were camping by the Red Sea near Pi-Hahiroth and Baal-Zephon.
Exo 14:10  When the Israelites saw the king coming with his army, they were frightened and begged the LORD for help.
Exo 14:11  They also complained to Moses, “Wasn’t there enough room in Egypt to bury us? Is that why you brought us out here to die in the desert? Why did you bring us out of Egypt anyway?
Exo 14:12  While we were there, didn’t we tell you to leave us alone? We had rather be slaves in Egypt than die in this desert!”
Exo 14:13  But Moses answered, “Don’t be afraid! Be brave, and you will see the LORD save you today. These Egyptians will never bother you again.
Exo 14:14  The LORD will fight for you, and you won’t have to do a thing.”
Exo 14:15  The LORD said to Moses, “Why do you keep calling out to me for help? Tell the Israelites to move forward.
Exo 14:16  Then hold your walking stick over the sea. The water will open up and make a road where they can walk through on dry ground.
Exo 14:17  I will make the Egyptians so stubborn that they will go after you. Then I will be praised because of what happens to the king and his chariots and cavalry.
Exo 14:18  The Egyptians will know for sure that I am the LORD.”
Exo 14:19  All this time God’s angel had gone ahead of Israel’s army, but now he moved behind them. A large cloud had also gone ahead of them,
Exo 14:20  but now it moved between the Egyptians and the Israelites. The cloud gave light to the Israelites, but made it dark for the Egyptians, and during the night they could not come any closer.
Exo 14:21  Moses stretched his arm over the sea, and the LORD sent a strong east wind that blew all night until there was dry land where the water had been. The sea opened up,
Exo 14:22  and the Israelites walked through on dry land with a wall of water on each side.
Exo 14:23  The Egyptian chariots and cavalry went after them.
Exo 14:24  But before daylight the LORD looked down at the Egyptian army from the fiery cloud and made them panic.
Exo 14:25  Their chariot wheels got stuck, and it was hard for them to move. So the Egyptians said to one another, “Let’s leave these people alone! The LORD is on their side and is fighting against us.”
Exo 14:26  The LORD told Moses, “Stretch your arm toward the sea–the water will cover the Egyptians and their cavalry and chariots.”
Exo 14:27  Moses stretched out his arm, and at daybreak the water rushed toward the Egyptians. They tried to run away, but the LORD drowned them in the sea.
Exo 14:28  The water came and covered the chariots, the cavalry, and the whole Egyptian army that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them was left alive.
Exo 14:29  But the sea had made a wall of water on each side of the Israelites; so they walked through on dry land.
Exo 14:30  On that day, when the Israelites saw the bodies of the Egyptians washed up on the shore, they knew that the LORD had saved them.
Exo 14:31  Because of the mighty power he had used against the Egyptians, the Israelites worshiped him and trusted him and his servant Moses.

Exodus Chapter 15

Exo 15:1  Moses and the Israelites sang this song in praise of the LORD: I sing praises to the LORD for his great victory! He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea.
Exo 15:2  The LORD is my strength, the reason for my song, because he has saved me. I praise and honor the LORD– he is my God and the God of my ancestors.
Exo 15:3  The LORD is his name, and he is a warrior!
Exo 15:4  He threw the chariots and army of Egypt’s king into the Red Sea, and he drowned the best of the king’s officers.
Exo 15:5  They sank to the bottom just like stones.
Exo 15:6  With the tremendous force of your right arm, our LORD, you crushed your enemies.
Exo 15:7  What a great victory was yours, as you defeated everyone who opposed you. Your fiery anger wiped them out, as though they were straw.
Exo 15:8  You were so furious that the sea piled up like a wall, and the ocean depths curdled like cheese.
Exo 15:9  Your enemies boasted that they would pursue and capture us, divide up our possessions, treat us as they wished, then take out their swords and kill us right there.
Exo 15:10  But when you got furious, they sank like lead, swallowed by ocean waves.
Exo 15:11  Our LORD, no other gods compare with you– Majestic and holy! Fearsome and glorious! Miracle worker!
Exo 15:12  When you signaled with your right hand, your enemies were swallowed deep into the earth.
Exo 15:13  The people you rescued were led by your powerful love to your holy place.
Exo 15:14  Nations learned of this and trembled– Philistines shook with horror.
Exo 15:15  The leaders of Edom and of Moab were terrified. Everyone in Canaan fainted,
Exo 15:16  struck down by fear. Our LORD, your powerful arm kept them still as a rock until the people you rescued for your very own had marched by.
Exo 15:17  You will let your people settle on your chosen mountain, where you built your home and your temple.
Exo 15:18  Our LORD, you will rule forever!
Exo 15:19  The LORD covered the royal Egyptian cavalry and chariots with the sea, after the Israelites had walked safely through on dry ground.
Exo 15:20  Miriam the sister of Aaron was a prophet. So she took her tambourine and led the other women out to play their tambourines and to dance.
Exo 15:21  Then she sang to them: “Sing praises to the LORD for his great victory! He has thrown the horses and their riders into the sea.”
Exo 15:22  After the Israelites left the Red Sea, Moses led them through the Shur Desert for three days, before finding water.
Exo 15:23  They did find water at Marah, but it was bitter, which is how that place got its name.
Exo 15:24  The people complained and said, “Moses, what are we going to drink?”
Exo 15:25  Moses asked the LORD for help, and the LORD told him to throw a piece of wood into the water. Moses did so, and the water became fit to drink. At Marah the LORD tested his people and also gave them some laws and teachings.
Exo 15:26  Then he said, “I am the LORD your God, and I cure your diseases. If you obey me by doing right and by following my laws and teachings, I won’t punish you with the diseases I sent on the Egyptians.”
Exo 15:27  Later the Israelites came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees. So they camped there.

Exodus Chapter 16

Exo 16:1  On the fifteenth day of the second month after the Israelites had escaped from Egypt, they left Elim and started through the western edge of the Sinai Desert in the direction of Mount Sinai.
Exo 16:2  There in the desert they started complaining to Moses and Aaron,
Exo 16:3  “We wish the LORD had killed us in Egypt. When we lived there, we could at least sit down and eat all the bread and meat we wanted. But you have brought us out here into this desert, where we are going to starve.”
Exo 16:4  The LORD said to Moses, “I will send bread down from heaven like rain. Each day the people can go out and gather only enough for that day. That’s how I will see if they obey me.
Exo 16:5  But on the sixth day of each week they must gather and cook twice as much.”
Exo 16:6  Moses and Aaron told the people, “This evening you will know that the LORD was the one who rescued you from Egypt.
Exo 16:7  And in the morning you will see his glorious power, because he has heard your complaints against him. Why should you grumble to us? Who are we?”
Exo 16:8  Then Moses continued, “You will know it is the LORD when he gives you meat each evening and more than enough bread each morning. He is really the one you are complaining about, not us–we are nobodies–but the LORD has heard your complaints.”
Exo 16:9  Moses turned to Aaron and said, “Bring the people together, because the LORD has heard their complaints.”
Exo 16:10  Aaron was speaking to them, when everyone looked out toward the desert and saw the bright glory of the LORD in a cloud.
Exo 16:11  The LORD said to Moses,
Exo 16:12  “I have heard my people complain. Now tell them that each evening they will have meat and each morning they will have more than enough bread. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.”
Exo 16:13  That evening a lot of quails came and landed everywhere in the camp, and the next morning dew covered the ground.
Exo 16:14  After the dew had gone, the desert was covered with thin flakes that looked like frost.
Exo 16:15  The people had never seen anything like this, and they started asking each other, “What is it?” Moses answered, “This is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
Exo 16:16  And he orders you to gather about two quarts for each person in your family–that should be more than enough.”
Exo 16:17  They did as they were told. Some gathered more and some gathered less,
Exo 16:18  according to their needs, and none was left over.
Exo 16:19  Moses told them not to keep any overnight.
Exo 16:20  Some of them disobeyed, but the next morning what they kept was stinking and full of worms, and Moses was angry.
Exo 16:21  Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and in the heat of the day the rest melted.
Exo 16:22  However, on the sixth day of the week, everyone gathered enough to have four quarts, instead of two. When the leaders reported this to Moses,
Exo 16:23  he told them that the LORD had said, “Tomorrow is the Sabbath, a sacred day of rest in honor of me. So gather all you want to bake or boil, and make sure you save enough for tomorrow.”
Exo 16:24  The people obeyed, and the next morning the food smelled fine and had no worms.
Exo 16:25  “You may eat the food,” Moses said. “Today is the Sabbath in honor of the LORD, and there won’t be any of this food on the ground today.
Exo 16:26  You will find it there for the first six days of the week, but not on the Sabbath.”
Exo 16:27  A few of the Israelites did go out to look for some, but there was none.
Exo 16:28  Then the LORD said, “Moses, how long will you people keep disobeying my laws and teachings?
Exo 16:29  Remember that I was the one who gave you the Sabbath. That’s why on the sixth day I provide enough bread for two days. Everyone is to stay home and rest on the Sabbath.”
Exo 16:30  And so they rested on the Sabbath.
Exo 16:31  The Israelites called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and delicious as wafers made with honey.
Exo 16:32  Moses told the people that the LORD had said, “Store up two quarts of this manna, because I want future generations to see the food I gave you during the time you were in the desert after I rescued you from Egypt.”
Exo 16:33  Then Moses told Aaron, “Put some manna in a jar and store it in the place of worship for future generations to see.”
Exo 16:34  Aaron followed the LORD’s instructions and put the manna in front of the sacred chest for safekeeping.
Exo 16:35  The Israelites ate manna for forty years, before they came to the border of Canaan that was a settled land.
Exo 16:36  (SEE 16:35)
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