Torah
Shemot17
Exodus · Chapter 17
And all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the mitsvah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and pitched in Rephidim: and
there was no water for the people to drink.
Wherefore the people did chide with Mosheh, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Mosheh said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)?
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Mosheh, and said, Wherefore
is this
that thou hast brought us up out of Mitsrayim, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
And Mosheh cried unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto Mosheh, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Yisra'el; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Mosheh did so in the sight of the elders of Yisra'el.
And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Yisra'el, and because they tempted 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), saying, Is 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) among us, or not?
Then came Amalek, and fought with Yisra'el in Rephidim.
And Mosheh said unto Yehoshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of Elohim in mine hand.
So Yehoshua did as Mosheh had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Mosheh, Aharon, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
And it came to pass, when Mosheh held up his hand, that Yisra'el prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
But Mosheh’ hands
were heavy; and they took a stone, and put
it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aharon and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
And Yehoshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto Mosheh, Write this
for a memorial in a book, and rehearse
it in the ears of Yehoshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under shamayim.
And Mosheh built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:
For he said, Because 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath sworn
that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
Torah
Shemot18
Exodus · Chapter 18
When Jethro, the kohen of Midian, Mosheh’ father in torah, heard of all that Elohim had done for Mosheh, and for Yisra'el his people,
and that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had brought Yisra'el out of Mitsrayim;
Then Jethro, Mosheh’ father in torah, took Zipporah, Mosheh’ wife, after he had sent her back,
And her two sons; of which the name of the one
was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
And the name of the other
was Eliezer; for the Elohim of my father,
said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
And Jethro, Mosheh’ father in torah, came with his sons and his wife unto Mosheh into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of Elohim:
And he said unto Mosheh, I thy father in torah Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
And Mosheh went out to meet his father in torah, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of
their welfare; and they came into the tent.
And Mosheh told his father in torah all that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Yisra'el’s sake,
and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and
how 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) delivered them.
And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) had done to Yisra'el, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
And Jethro said, Blessed
be 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Now I know that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly
he was above them.
And Jethro, Mosheh’ father in torah, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for Elohim: and Aharon came, and all the elders of Yisra'el, to eat bread with Mosheh’ father in torah before Elohim.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Mosheh sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Mosheh from the morning unto the evening.
And when Mosheh’ father in torah saw all that he did to the people, he said, What
is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
And Mosheh said unto his father in torah, Because the people come unto me to enquire of Elohim:
When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make
them know the statutes of Elohim, and his laws.
And Mosheh’ father in torah said unto him, The thing that thou doest
is not good.
Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that
is
with thee: for this thing
is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and Elohim shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to Elohim-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto Elohim:
And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear Elohim, 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:
And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be,
that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear
the burden with thee.
If thou shalt do this thing, and Elohim command thee
so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
So Mosheh hearkened to the voice of his father in torah, and did all that he had said.
And Mosheh chose able men out of all Yisra'el, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Mosheh, but every small matter they judged themselves.
And Mosheh let his father in torah depart; and he went his way into his own land.
Torah
Shemot19
Exodus · Chapter 19
In the third month, when the children of Yisra'el were gone forth out of the land of Mitsrayim, the same day came they
into the wilderness of Sinai.
For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come
to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Yisra'el camped before the mount.
And Mosheh went up unto Elohim, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Ya'aqov, and tell the children of Yisra'el;
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and
how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my b'rit, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth
is mine:
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of kohanim, and an holy nation. These
are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Yisra'el.
And Mosheh came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) commanded him.
And all the people answered together, and said, All that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath spoken we will do. And Mosheh returned the words of the people unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto Mosheh, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Mosheh told the words of the people unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto Mosheh, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
And be ready against the third day: for the third day 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves,
that ye go
not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether
it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
And Mosheh went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at
your wives.
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that
was in the camp trembled.
And Mosheh brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with Elohim; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Mosheh spake, and Elohim answered him by a voice.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) called Mosheh
up to the top of the mount; and Mosheh went up.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto Mosheh, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) to gaze, and many of them perish.
And let the kohanim also, which come near to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), sanctify themselves, lest 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) break forth upon them.
And Mosheh said unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aharon with thee: but let not the kohanim and the people break through to come up unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), lest he break forth upon them.
So Mosheh went down unto the people, and spake unto them.