The Exodus: From Rameses to Succoth

The Egyptians urged the people to hasten their departure from the land, for they said, “We shall all be dead.”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a remembrance in a book and recite it in the hearing of Joshua: I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

But now, if you will only forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of the book that you have written.”

But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.

Wherefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis. The Arnon

“If you do not diligently observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, fearing this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,

Every other malady and affliction, even though not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will inflict on you until you are destroyed.

the Lord will be unwilling to pardon them, for then the Lord’s anger and passion will smoke against them. All the curses written in this book will descend on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven.

The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

so the anger of the Lord was kindled against that land, bringing on it every curse written in this book.

when you obey the Lord your God by observing his commandments and decrees that are written in this book of the law, because you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

When Moses had finished writing down in a book the words of this law to the very end,

“Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; let it remain there as a witness against you.

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall be successful.

just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the Israelites, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, “an altar of unhewn stones, on which no iron tool has been used,” and they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed offerings of well-being.

And afterward he read all the words of the law, blessings and curses, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in midheaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.

So the men went and traversed the land and set down in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions; then they came back to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh,

Therefore be very steadfast to observe and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right nor to the left,

Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak in the sanctuary of the Lord.

Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people back to their homes.

(He ordered that The Song of the Bow be taught to the people of Judah; it is written in the Book of Jashar.) He said,

Death of Solomon

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, all that he did as well as his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?

Death of Jeroboam

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, are written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel.