Exodus 17:6   (Read all of Exodus 17)

I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Exodus 18:6   (Read all of Exodus 18)

Jethro had sent word to him, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons."

Exodus 18:10   (Read all of Exodus 18)

He said, "Praise be to the Lord, who rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who rescued the people from the hand of the Egyptians.

Exodus 18:14   (Read all of Exodus 18)

When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, "What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?"

Exodus 18:17   (Read all of Exodus 18)

Moses' father-in-law replied, "What you are doing is not good.

Exodus 18:18   (Read all of Exodus 18)

You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.

Exodus 18:19   (Read all of Exodus 18)

Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people's representative before God and bring their disputes to him.

Exodus 18:22   (Read all of Exodus 18)

Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you.

Exodus 18:23   (Read all of Exodus 18)

If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied."

Exodus 19:3   (Read all of Exodus 19)

Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, "This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel:

Exodus 19:4   (Read all of Exodus 19)

'You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.

Exodus 19:5   (Read all of Exodus 19)

Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,

Exodus 19:6   (Read all of Exodus 19)

you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites."

Exodus 19:9   (Read all of Exodus 19)

The Lord said to Moses, "I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you." Then Moses told the Lord what the people had said.

Exodus 19:12   (Read all of Exodus 19)

Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, 'Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death.

Exodus 19:15   (Read all of Exodus 19)

Then he said to the people, "Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations."

Exodus 19:23   (Read all of Exodus 19)

Moses said to the Lord, "The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, 'Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.' "

Exodus 19:24   (Read all of Exodus 19)

The Lord replied, "Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the Lord, or he will break out against them."

Exodus 20:2   (Read all of Exodus 20)

"I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Exodus 20:3   (Read all of Exodus 20)

"You shall have no other gods before me.

Exodus 20:4   (Read all of Exodus 20)

"You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

Exodus 20:5   (Read all of Exodus 20)

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Exodus 20:7   (Read all of Exodus 20)

"You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

Exodus 20:9   (Read all of Exodus 20)

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,