Exodus 16-18 Yahweh Rains Bread from Heaven

Yahweh Rains Bread from Heaven

Exo 16:4 LSB - [4] Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My law.

Yahweh Gives Meat and Bread

Exo 16:12-13 LSB - [12] "I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread, so that you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'" [13] So it happened at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

Yahweh Gives Bread for Two Days

Exo 16:22 LSB - [22] Now it happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. Then all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses.

Exo 16:35 LSB - [35] And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah

1 Guide me, O my great Redeemer,

pilgrim through this barren land;

I am weak, but you are mighty;

hold me with your powerful hand.

Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,

feed me now and evermore,

feed me now and evermore.

2 Open now the crystal fountain,

where the healing waters flow.

Let the fire and cloudy pillar

lead me all my journey through.

Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,

ever be my strength and shield,

ever be my strength and shield.

3 When I tread the verge of Jordan,

bid my anxious fears subside.

Death of death, and hell's Destruction,

land me safe on Canaan's side.

Songs of praises, songs of praises

I will ever sing to you,

I will ever sing to you.

Water from the Rock

Exo 17:6-7 LSB - [6] "Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. [7] So he named the place Massah and Meribah because of the contending of the sons of Israel, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us or not?"

Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless

1 Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless

Your chosen pilgrim flock

With manna in the wilderness,

With water from the rock.

2 We would not live by bread alone,

But by your word of grace,

In strength of which we travel on

To our abiding place.

3 Be known to us in breaking bread,

But do not then depart;

Savior, abide with us, and spread

Your table in our heart.

4 Lord, sup with us in love divine;

Your body and your blood,

That living bread, that heav'nly wine,

Be our immortal food.

 

Israel Overwhelms Amalek

Exo 17:14-16 LSB - [14] Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it in Joshua's hearing, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven." [15] And Moses built an altar and named it Yahweh is My Banner; [16] and he said, "Because He [has sworn] with a hand upon the throne of Yah, Yahweh will have war against Amalek from generation to generation."

Jethro’s Counsel

Exo 18:2-4 LSB - [2] And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away, [3] and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land." [4] And the other was named Eliezer, for [he said], "The God of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh."

Exo 18:21-22 LSB - [21] "But you shall select excellent men out of all the people, those who fear God, men of truth, those who hate greedy gain; and you shall place [these men] over them [as] leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. [22] "And they will judge the people at all times. And it will be that every major matter they will bring to you, but every minor matter they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear [the burden] with you.