Exodus 20

1 God ('Elohiym) spoke all these words, saying,

2 “I am I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God ('Elohiym), which have brought you out of the land of Double Straights (Egypt), out of the house of bondage.

3 You will have no other gods ('elohiym) before me.

4 You will not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

5 You will not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them: for I, I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God ('Elohiym) am a jealous god ('el), visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

6 And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

7 You will not take the name of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God ('Elohiym) in vain; for I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain.

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days will you labor, and do all your work:

10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God ('Elohiym): in it you will not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates:

11 For in six days I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: therefore I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God ('Elohiym) gives you.

13 You will not murder.

14 You will not commit adultery.

15 You will not steal.

16 You will not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17 You will not covet your neighbor's house, you will not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighbor's.”

18 Then all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they backed up, and stood afar off.

19 And they said to Drawn (Moses), “You speak with us, and we will hear: but let not God ('Elohiym) speak with us, lest we die.”

20 Drawn (Moses) exhorted the people, “Fear not: for God ('Elohiym) comes to prove you, and that His reverence may be before your faces, that you sin not.”

21 So the people stood afar off, and Drawn (Moses) drew near to the thick darkness where God ('Elohiym) was.

22 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Thus you will say to the children of God Prevails (Israel), you have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

23 you will not make gods ('elohiym) of silver, neither will you make gods ('elohiym) of gold.

24 An altar of earth you will make to Me, and will sacrifice thereon your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come to you, and I will bless you.

25 And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you will not build it of hewn stone: for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it.

26 Neither will you go up by steps to mine altar, that your nakedness be not discovered thereon.”

Exodus 19

1 In the third month, when the children of God Prevails (Israel) had left the land of Double Straights (Egypt), they came into the Wilderness of Thorns (Wilderness of Sinai).

2 They departed from Spreading Support ( Rephidim), and came to the desert of Thorny (Sinai), and had pitched in the wilderness. There God Prevails (Israel) camped before the mount.

3 Drawn (Moses) went up to God, and I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus will you say to the house of Heel-Grabber (Jacob), and tell the children of God Prevails (Israel);

4 You have seen what I did to the Double Straighters (Egyptians) How I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you to Myself.

5 Now therefore, if you will obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you will be a peculiar treasure to Me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

6 And you will be to Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which you will speak to the children of God Prevails (Israel).”

7 So, Drawn (Moses) came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) commanded him.

8 And all the people answered together saying, “All that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) has spoken we will do.” Then Drawn (Moses) returned the words of the people to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah).

9 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Look, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever.” And Drawn (Moses) told the words of the people to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah).

10 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Go to the people, and sanctify them to day and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes,

11 And be ready for the third day. On the third day I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will come down in the sight of all the people on mount Thorny (Sinai).

12 Set boundaries for the people round about, saying, “Take heed to yourselves, don't go up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever touches the mount will be surely put to death:

13 There will not an hand touch it, but he will surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it will not live: when the trumpet sounds long, they will come up to the mount.”

14 Then Drawn (Moses) went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

15 He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day: come not at your wives.”

16 On the third day in the morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet was exceedingly loud; so that all the people in the camp trembled.

17 Drawn (Moses) brought the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

18 Then Mount Thorny (Sinai) began to smoke, because I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) descended upon it in fire. The smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

19 When the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and became louder and louder, Drawn (Moses) spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

20 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) came down on Mount Thorny (Sinai), on the top of the mount. I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) called Drawn (Moses) up to the top of the mount, so Drawn (Moses) went up.

21 I AM (the LORD,Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) to gaze, and many of them perish.

22 And let the chief rulers also, which come near to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), sanctify themselves, lest I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) break forth upon them.”

23 Drawn (Moses) said to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), “The people cannot come up to Mount Thorny (Sinai): for You charged us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.”

24 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) answered him, “Away, get you down, and you will come up, you, and Light Bringer (Aaron) with you: but let not chief rulers and the people break through to come up to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), lest he break forth upon them.”

25 So Drawn (Moses) went down to the people, and spoke to them.

Exodus 18

1 When His Abundance (Jethro), the priest of Strife (Midian), Drawn's (Moses) father in law, heard of all that God ('Elohiym) had done for Drawn (Moses), and for God Prevails (Israel) his people, and that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) had brought God Prevails (Israel) out of Double Straights (Egypt);

2 Then His Abundance (Jethro), Drawn's (Moses) father in law, took A Little Bird (Zipporah), Drawn's (Moses) wife, after he had sent her back,

3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Exile (Gershom). For he said, “I have been an alien in a strange land.”

4 And the name of the other was God is Help (Eliezer). “For the God ('Elohiym) of my father”, he said, “was my help, and delivered me from the sword of the Great House (Pharaoh).”

5 His Abundance (Jethro), Drawn's (Moses) father in law, came with his sons and his wife to Drawn (Moses) into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God ('Elohiym):

6 He sent a message to Drawn (Moses), “I, your father in law His Abundance (Jethro), have come to you, and your wife, and her two sons with her.”

7 So Drawn (Moses) went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare. Then they went into the tent.

8 Drawn (Moses) told his father in law all that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) had done to the Great House (Pharaoh) and to the Double Straighters (Egyptians) for God Prevails (Israel)'s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) delivered them.

9 And His Abundance (Jethro) rejoiced for all the goodness which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) had done for God Prevails (Israel), whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Double Straighters (Egyptians).

10 His Abundance (Jethro) said, “Blessed be I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), who has delivered you out of the hand of the Double Straighters (Egyptians), and out of the hand of the Great House (Pharaoh), who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Double Straighters (Egyptians).

11 Now I know that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly He was above them.”

12 Then His Abundance (Jethro), Drawn's (Moses) father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God ('Elohiym): and Light Bringer (Aaron) came, and all the elders of God Prevails (Israel), to eat bread with Drawn's (Moses) father in law before God ('Elohiym).

13 The next day, Drawn (Moses) sat to judge the people: and the people waited for Drawn (Moses) from the morning to the evening.

14 And when Drawn's (Moses) father in law saw all that he did for the people, he said, “What is all this that you do for the people? Why do you sit all alone, and all the people come to you from morning to evening?”

15 Drawn (Moses) answered his father in law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

16 When they have a matter, they come to me; and I judge between one and another, and I make them know the statutes of God, and His laws.”

17 And Drawn's(Moses) father in law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.

18 You will surely wear away, both you, and the people that are with you: for this thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it yourself alone.”

19 Listen to my voice, I will give you counsel, and God ('Elohiym) will be with you. Intercede for the people before God ('Elohiym), that you may bring the causes to God ('Elohiym):

20 Teach them ordinances and laws, and show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

21 Moreover pick out of all the people able men, such as fear God ('Elohiym), men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

22 And let them judge the people in all seasons: and it will be, that every great matter they will bring to you, but every small matter they will judge: so will it be easier for thyself, and they will bear the burden with you.

23 If you will do this thing, and God ('Elohiym) commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will also go to their place in peace.”

24 So Drawn (Moses) listened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.

25 And Drawn (Moses) chose able men out of all God Prevails (Israel), and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard cases they brought to Drawn (Moses), but every small matter they judged themselves.

27 Then Drawn (Moses) let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

Exodus 17

1 All the congregation of the children of God Prevails (Israel) set out from the Wilderness of Thorns (Wilderness of Sin), breaking camp according to the commandment of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah). They then pitched in Spreading Support ( Rephidim) but there was no water for the people to drink.

2 Therefore the people strove with Drawn (Moses), and said, “Give us water that we may drink.” But Drawn (Moses) said to them, “Why complain to me? Why do you tempt I AM (the LORD, Yehovah)?”

3 And the people thirsted there for water and they murmured against Drawn (Moses) saying, “Why is it that you have brought us up out of Double Straights (Egypt), to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

4 So Drawn (Moses) cried to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) saying, “What do I do wth this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

5 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) answered Drawn (Moses), “Go on before the people. Take with you of the elders of God Prevails (Israel) and your rod, with which you struck the river, take in your hand, and go.

6 I will stand before you there upon the rock in Desert (Horeb). You will hit the rock and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” So Drawn (Moses) did so in the sight of the elders of God Prevails (Israel).

7 He called the name of the place Temptation (Massah), and Place of Strife (Meribah), because of the chiding of the children of God Prevails (Israel), and because they tempted I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), saying, “Is I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) among us, or not?”

8 Then Licker (Amalek) came and fought with God Prevails (Israel) in Spreading Support ( Rephidim).

9 Drawn (Moses) said to I AM is Salvation (Joshua), “Choose men for us to go fight with Licker (Amalek). Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God ('Elohiym) in mine hand.

10 So I AM is Salvation (Joshua) did as Drawn (Moses) had said to him, and fought with Licker (Amalek): and Drawn (Moses), Light Bringer (Aaron), and Cavern (Hur) went up to the top of the hill.

11 When Drawn (Moses) held up his hand, God Prevails (Israel) prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Licker (Amalek) prevailed.

12 But Drawn's (Moses) hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat there; and Light Bringer (Aaron) and Cavern (Hur) stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side so his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

13 And I AM is Salvation (Joshua) discomfited Licker (Amalek) and his people with the edge of the sword.

14 Then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to Drawn (Moses), “Wris for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of I AM is Salvation (Joshua): for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Licker (Amalek) from under heaven.”

15 So Drawn (Moses) built an altar, and called the name of it I AM is My Banner (Jehovahnissi – Yehovah Nissi):

16 For he said, “Because I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) has sworn that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will have war with Licker (Amalek) from generation to generation.”