1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,080 in a year. 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:12,440 Yesterday we heard about the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea and how God allowed the Israelites 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:17,400 to escape through the Red Sea by opening up the waters so that they walk on dry ground 5 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,320 in the midst of the sea. 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,920 And once they crossed, they beheld and saw how God closed the water back in on Pharaoh's 7 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:30,480 armies and all of them drowned, all the armies, the chariots, all the soldiers, they drowned. 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,480 And the Israelites saw this and they beheld the power of God. 9 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:42,400 And every time we are praising the midnight praises in the first canticle, we are commemorating 10 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,840 this miraculous event. 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,100 In the first canticle is the retelling of Exodus 15. 12 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:53,280 And today we're going to hear about what happens on the other side of the Red Sea, about how 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:59,160 God leads the people through the wilderness and how He feeds them and how He gives them 14 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,720 water and how He leads them towards His holy mountain. 15 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:04,960 Alright, let's begin. 16 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:10,160 Today's reading is from Exodus 16, 17 and 18. 17 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,920 Chapter 16. 18 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,380 And they journeyed from Elim and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness 19 00:01:16,380 --> 00:01:21,840 of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after 20 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,080 they departed from the land of Egypt. 21 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:28,200 Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron 22 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:29,560 in the wilderness. 23 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:34,160 And the children of Israel said to them, O that we had died by the hand of the Lord in 24 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:39,580 the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full. 25 00:01:39,580 --> 00:01:44,440 For you have brought us out into the wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger. 26 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:49,280 Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the people 27 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:54,180 shall go out and gather a certain quota every day that I may test them, whether they will 28 00:01:54,180 --> 00:01:56,640 walk in my law or not. 29 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,640 And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall 30 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,800 be twice as much as they gather daily. 31 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,480 Then Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, At evening you shall know that 32 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:12,680 the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the 33 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,800 glory of the Lord, for He hears your complaints against the Lord. 34 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,840 But what are we that you complain against us? 35 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:24,840 Also Moses said, This shall be seen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, 36 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:29,280 and in the morning bread to the full, for the Lord hears your complaints which you make 37 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:30,480 against Him. 38 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:31,560 And what are we? 39 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,960 Your complaints are not against us, but against the Lord. 40 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:39,580 Then Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come 41 00:02:39,580 --> 00:02:42,880 near before the Lord, for He has heard your complaints. 42 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,160 Now it came to pass as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, 43 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,880 that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in 44 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:52,120 the cloud. 45 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:56,640 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, 46 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:01,200 speak to them, saying, At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be 47 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,720 filled with bread, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God. 48 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:10,360 So it was that quail came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew 49 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:15,320 lay all around the camp, and when the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the 50 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:20,120 wilderness was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground. 51 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,800 So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? 52 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,760 For they did not know what it was. 53 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:30,000 And Moses said to them, This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. 54 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,640 This is the thing which the Lord has commanded. 55 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:37,680 Let every man gather it according to each one's need, one omer for each person. 56 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:42,680 According to the number of persons, let every man take for those who are in his tent. 57 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:47,000 Then the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. 58 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,920 So when they measured it by omers, he who gathered much had nothing left over, and he 59 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,680 who gathered little had no lack. 60 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,000 Every man had gathered according to each one's need. 61 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,640 And Moses said, Let no one leave any of it till morning. 62 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,320 Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. 63 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,740 But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. 64 00:04:08,740 --> 00:04:10,440 And Moses was angry with them. 65 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,800 So they gathered it every morning, every man according to his need, and when the sun became 66 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,880 hot it melted. 67 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:22,800 And so it was on the sixth day that they gathered twice as much, two omers for each one. 68 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,040 And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 69 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,760 Then he said to them, This is what the Lord has said. 70 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,680 Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. 71 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,160 Take what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil, and lay up for yourselves all 72 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,120 that remains to be kept until morning. 73 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:45,280 So they laid it up till morning as Moses commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms 74 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:46,280 in it. 75 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:50,880 Then Moses said, Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord. 76 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,080 Today you will not find it in the field. 77 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:57,300 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day the Sabbath there will be none. 78 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:00,720 Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they 79 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:01,920 found none. 80 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,640 Then the Lord said to Moses, How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 81 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,500 See for the Lord has given you the Sabbath, therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread 82 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:12,500 for two days. 83 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:17,900 Let every man remain in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. 84 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:20,440 So the people rested on the seventh day. 85 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:26,280 And the house of Israel called its name manna, and it was like white coriander seed, and 86 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:29,120 the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 87 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,920 Then Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded. 88 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,680 Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with 89 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,880 which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt. 90 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,000 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and lay it up before 91 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,080 the Lord, to be kept for your generations. 92 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:54,240 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the testimony, to be kept. 93 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:59,320 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. 94 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:03,120 They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. 95 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:07,040 Now an omer is one tenth of an effa. 96 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:08,720 Chapter 17 97 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,560 Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the 98 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:18,440 wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped in Rephidim. 99 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,800 But there was no water for the people to drink. 100 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,480 Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. 101 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,360 So Moses said to them, Why do you contend with me? 102 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,040 Why do you tempt the Lord? 103 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,200 And the people thirsted there for water. 104 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,520 And the people complained against Moses, and said, Why is it you have brought us up out 105 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:41,200 of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst? 106 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,680 So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, What shall I do with these people? 107 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,080 They are almost ready to stone me. 108 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:50,640 And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take with you some of the 109 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,280 elders of Israel. 110 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:56,600 Also take in your hand your rod, with which you struck the river, and go. 111 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,080 Behold I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. 112 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,800 And you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink. 113 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,280 And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 114 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:12,160 So he called the name of the place Massa and Mariba, because of the contention of the children 115 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:17,680 of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us or not? 116 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,480 Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rafidim. 117 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:26,440 And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us some men, and go out, fight with Amalek. 118 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:30,880 Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, with the rod of God in my hand. 119 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,720 So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. 120 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,560 And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 121 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,920 And so it was when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed, and when he let down 122 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,160 his hand Amalek prevailed. 123 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:50,880 So Moses' hands became heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on 124 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:51,880 it. 125 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:57,040 And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. 126 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,320 And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 127 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,000 So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 128 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,440 Then the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in the book, and recount it in 129 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:13,280 the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under 130 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:14,380 heaven. 131 00:08:14,380 --> 00:08:18,260 Then Moses built an altar and called its name, The Lord is my banner. 132 00:08:18,260 --> 00:08:23,000 For he said, Because the Lord has sworn, the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation 133 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 to generation. 134 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Chapter 18 And Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, 135 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,120 heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel and his people, that the Lord has 136 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,520 brought Israel out of Egypt. 137 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:42,600 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back with 138 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:48,000 her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gershom, for he said, I have been a stranger 139 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:53,520 in a foreign land, and the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father 140 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,240 was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. 141 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:02,880 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, 142 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,220 where he was encamped at the mountain of God. 143 00:09:05,220 --> 00:09:10,640 Now he had said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and 144 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:12,480 her two sons with her. 145 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,800 So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down and kissed him. 146 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:21,280 And they asked each other about their well-being, and they went into the tent. 147 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:25,720 And Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians 148 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:30,680 for Israel's sake, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how the Lord 149 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:31,880 had delivered them. 150 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:36,200 Then Jethro rejoiced for all the good which the Lord had done for Israel, whom he had 151 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,320 delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. 152 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:42,760 And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians 153 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,560 and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of 154 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:47,560 the Egyptians. 155 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:53,120 Now, I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the very thing in which 156 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,280 they behaved proudly, he was above them. 157 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:00,920 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and other sacrifices to offer 158 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:02,060 to God. 159 00:10:02,060 --> 00:10:07,000 And Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses, father-in-law, before 160 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,000 God. 161 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,480 And so it was on the next day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood 162 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,120 before Moses from morning until evening. 163 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:19,800 So when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, What is this 164 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,280 thing that you are doing for the people? 165 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:26,640 Why do you alone sit and all the people stand before you from morning until evening? 166 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:31,320 And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God. 167 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,520 When they have a difficulty, they come to me, and I judge between one and another, and 168 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,720 I make known the statutes of God and His laws. 169 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,900 So Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that you do is not good. 170 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:47,240 Both you and these people who are with you will surely wear yourselves out, for this 171 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:48,800 thing is too much for you. 172 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,680 You are not able to perform it by yourself. 173 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:52,760 Listen now to my voice. 174 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,040 I will give you counsel, and God will be with you. 175 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:00,620 Stand before God for the people, so that you may bring the difficulties to God. 176 00:11:00,620 --> 00:11:04,960 And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they 177 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,320 must walk and the work they must do. 178 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:13,160 Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, 179 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:19,160 hating covetousness, and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, 180 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:24,880 rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and let them judge the people at all times. 181 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:29,480 Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter 182 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,820 they themselves shall judge. 183 00:11:31,820 --> 00:11:35,600 So it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you. 184 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:40,040 If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and 185 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,320 all these people will also go to their place in peace. 186 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:48,060 So Moses heeded the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said. 187 00:11:48,060 --> 00:11:53,000 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers 188 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,080 of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 189 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,560 So they judged the people at all times. 190 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:05,560 The hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves. 191 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:15,360 Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own land. 192 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,000 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you 193 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,440 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 194 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:31,200 God bless you and have a great day.