Today's Bible Passage is "Exodus 15:22 - 16:12"
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Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah. The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” Then he cried to The Lord. The Lord showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them; and he said, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of The Lord your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am The Lord who heals you.”They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
16:1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the hand of The Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Then said The Lord to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”
Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, then you shall know that The Lord has brought you out from the land of Egypt; and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of The Lord; because he hears your murmurings against The Lord. Who are we, that you murmur against us?” Moses said, “Now The Lord shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because The Lord hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against The Lord.” Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before The Lord, for he has heard your murmurings.’” It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of The Lord appeared in the cloud. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am The Lord your God.’”
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