The Lord institutes the Passover, and the feast of unleavened bread—Lambs slain are without blemish—Israel saved by their blood—Firstborn of all Egyptians slain—Israel thrust out of Egypt after 430 years—No bones of paschal lambs shall be broken.

 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in ^aSuccoth^•.

 ¶ And they took their journey from ^aSuccoth^•, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

 And the ^aLORD^• went before them by day in a pillar of a ^bcloud^•, to ^clead^• them the way; and by night in a ^dpillar^• of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

Israel goes out of Egypt—They pass through the Red Sea on dry ground—The Lord overthrows the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

 And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.

 ¶ And when they came to ^aMarah^•, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

 And the people ^amurmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the ^awaters^• were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he ^bproved^• them,

 And said, If thou wilt ^adiligently ^bhearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and ^ckeep^• all his statutes, I will put none of these ^ddiseases^• upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that ^ehealeth thee.

 ¶ And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and ^athreescore^• and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

Israel murmurs for want of bread, and lusts for the flesh pots of Egypt—The Lord rains bread from heaven, and sends quail for meat—Israel given manna each day, except the Sabbath, for forty years.

 ¶ Then came ^aAmalek^•, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

 And Moses said unto ^aJoshua^•, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the ^brod^• of God in mine hand.

 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

 But Moses’ hands ^awere^• heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur ^bstayed^• up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

 And Joshua ^adiscomfited^• Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a ^abook^•, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of ^bAmalek^• from under heaven.

 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it ^aJehovah^•-nissi:

 For he said, ^aBecause^• the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

The Lord covenants to make Israel a peculiar treasure, a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation—People sanctify themselves—The Lord appears on Sinai amid fire and smoke and earthquakes.

Israel commanded to donate property and build a tabernacle; also the ark of testimony (with its mercy seat and the cherubims), a table (for the shewbread), and the candlestick, all according to pattern shown Moses in the mount.

 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me ^aseventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and ^bofficers^• over them; and bring them unto the ^ctabernacle^• of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall ^abear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

Israel presses forward to their promised land—They pass through lands of Esau and of Ammon in peace, but destroy Amorites.

 AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

 ^aSend^• thou men, that they may ^bsearch^• the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.

 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

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 ¶ And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up ^athis^• way southward, and go up into the mountain:

 And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;

 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.

 ¶ So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, ^aas^• men come to Hamath.

 And they ^aascended^• by the south, and came unto ^bHebron^•; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before ^cZoan^• in Egypt.)

 And they came unto the ^abrook^• of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

 ¶ And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it ^afloweth^• with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are ^awalled^•, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

 The ^aAmalekites^• dwell in the land of the ^bsouth^•: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

 And ^aCaleb^• stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

 But the ^amen^• that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

 And there we saw the ^agiants^•, the sons of Anak, which come of the ^bgiants^•: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

 And the ^aspace^• in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the ^bmen^• of war ^cwere^• wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

 ¶ And Moses ^asent^• messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:

 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an ^aangel^•, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:

 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.

 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass ^aby^• me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.

 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will ^apay^• for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.

 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

 ¶ Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the ^afear^• of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

 ¶ And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.

 Thou shalt ^asell^• me ^bmeat^• for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only ^cI^• will pass through on my feet;

 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.

 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God ^ahardened^• his spirit, and made his heart ^bobstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.

 Then ^aSihon^• came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.

 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we ^asmote^• him, and his sons, and all his people.

 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly ^adestroyed^• the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

 From ^aAroer^•, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God ^bdelivered^• all unto us:

 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.

 AND Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is ^aover^• against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto ^athe^• utmost sea,

 And the ^asouth^•, and the plain of the valley of ^bJericho^•, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.

 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I ^asware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.

Moses begins recitation of all that befell Israel during forty years in wilderness—They are commanded to go in and possess Canaan—Judges and rulers chosen to assist Moses—Israel’s spies bring evil report—Adults of Israel shall perish—Amorites defeat armies of Israel.

 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

 Then ye shall ^adrive^• out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their ^bpictures^•, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their ^chigh^• places:

 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

 And ye shall divide the ^aland by ^blot^• for an ^cinheritance^• among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be ^apricks^• in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

Joshua leads Israel to Jordan—The Lord cuts off the water of Jordan; it stands up as a heap, and Israel passes over on dry ground.

Jericho is taken and destroyed—Only Rahab and her household are saved.