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Exodus 16

    ²And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

    ³And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the flesh pots, and ate bread to the full. Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine?

    ⁴And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you: let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.

    ⁵But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day.

    ⁶And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel: In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt:

    ⁷And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, what are we, that you mutter against us?

    ⁸And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.

    ⁹Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the children of Israel: Come before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring.

    ¹⁰And when Aaron spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness: and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.

    ¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    ¹²I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel: say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread: and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

    ¹³So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning, a dew lay round about the camp.

    ¹⁴And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.

    ¹⁵And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread, which the Lord hath given you to eat.

    ¹⁶This is the word, that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat: a gomor for every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take of it.

    ¹⁷And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.

    ¹⁸And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more that had gathered more: nor did he find less that had provided less: but every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat.

    ¹⁹And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning.

    ²⁰And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, an it putrefied, and Moses was angry with them.

    ²¹Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.

    ²²But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told Moses.

    ²³And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it: and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them: and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.

    ²⁴And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrefy, neither was there worm found in it.

    ²⁵And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.

    ²⁶Gather it six days: but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.

    ²⁷And the seventh day came: and some of the people going forth to gather, found none.

    ²⁸And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

    ²⁹See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.

    ³⁰And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.

    ³¹And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.

    ³²And Moses said: This is the word, which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter, that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.

    ³³And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold: and lay it up before the Lord to keep unto your generations,

    ³⁴As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.

    ³⁵And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.

    ³⁶Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.

Exodus 17

    ²And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?

    ³So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst?

    ⁴And Moses cried to the Lord, saying: What shall I do to this people? Yet a little more and they will stone me.

    ⁵And the Lord said to Moses: God before the people, and take with thee of the ancients of Israel: and take in thy hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike the river, and go.

    ⁶Behold I will stand there before thee, upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt strike the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so before the ancients of Israel:

    ⁷And he called the name of that place Temptation, because the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?

    ⁸And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.

    ⁹And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men: and go out and fight against Amalec: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill having the rod of God in my hand.

    ¹⁰Josue did as Moses had spoken, and he fought against Amalec; but Moses, and Aaron, and Hur went up upon the top of the hill.

    ¹¹And when Moses lifted up his hands, Israel overcame: but if he let them down a little, Amalec overcame.

    ¹²And Moses' hands were heavy: so they took a stone, and put under him, and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands on both sides. And it came to pass that his hands were not weary until sunset.

    ¹³And Josue put Amalec and his people to flight, by the edge of the sword.

    ¹⁴And the Lord said to Moses: Write this for a memorial in a book, and deliver it to the ears of Josue: for I will destroy the memory of Amalec from under heaven.

    ¹⁵And Moses built an altar: and called the name thereof, The Lord my exaltation, saying:

    ¹⁶Because the hand of the throne of the Lord, and the war of the Lord shall be against Amalec, from generation to generation.

Exodus 18

    ²He took Sephora the wife of Moses whom he had sent back:

    ³And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam, his father saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country.

    ⁴And the other Eliezer: For the God of my father, said he, is my helper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pharao.

    ⁵And Jethro the kinsman of Moses came with his sons and his wife, to Moses into the desert, where he was camped by the mountain of God.

    ⁶And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro thy kinsman come to thee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her.

    ⁷And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed him: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was come into the tent,

    ⁸Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians, in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.

    ⁹And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had done to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians.

    ¹⁰And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of Pharao, and out of the hand of the Egyptians, who hath delivered his people out of the hand of Egypt.

    ¹¹Now I know that the Lord is great above all gods: because they dealt proudly against them.

    ¹²So Jethro the kinsman of Moses offered holocausts and sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with them before God.

    ¹³And the next day Moses sat, to judge the people, who stood by Moses from morning until night.

    ¹⁴And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night.

    ¹⁵And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God.

    ¹⁶And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.

    ¹⁷But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.

    ¹⁸Thou are spent with foolish labour, both thou and this people that is with thee: the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.

    ¹⁹But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their words to him:

    ²⁰And to shew the people the ceremonies and the manner of worshipping, and the way wherein they ought to walk, and the work that they ought to do.

    ²¹And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.

    ²²Who may judge the people at all times: and when any great matter soever shall fall out, let them refer it to thee, and let them judge the lesser matters only: that so it may be lighter for thee, the burden being shared out unto others.

    ²³If thou dost this, thou shalt fulfil the commandment of God, and shalt be able to bear his precepts: and all this people shall return to their places with peace.

    ²⁴And when Moses heard this, he did all things that he had suggested unto him.

    ²⁵And choosing able men out of all Israel, he appointed them rulers of the people, rulers over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.

    ²⁶And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier cases only.

    ²⁷And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his own country.

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Matthew 18

    ²And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them,

    ³And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

    ⁴Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.

    ⁵And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

    ⁶But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.

    ⁷Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh.

    ⁸And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.

    ⁹And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

    ¹⁰See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

    ¹¹For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

    ¹²What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray?

    ¹³And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.

    ¹⁴Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

    ¹⁵But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.

    ¹⁶And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.

    ¹⁷And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.

    ¹⁸Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven.

    ¹⁹Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, concerning any thing whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my Father who is in heaven.

    ²⁰For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.