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To horse! cried Pharao, and swept chariots and horsemen on into the sea; and the Lord brought the waters of the sea back over them, while the sons of Israel went through the midst of it dry-shod.✻✻ (Exodus 15, 19)
and took up from her the refrain, A psalm for the Lord, so great he is and so glorious; horse and rider hurled into the sea! (Exodus 15, 21)
So they came to Mara, and even here they could not drink the water, so brackish it was to the taste; it was with good reason he called it Mara, for Mara means Bitterness. (Exodus 15, 23)
Here the people were loud in their complaints against Moses; What shall we do for water? they said. (Exodus 15, 24)
Whereupon he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord shewed him a tree whose wood turned the waters sweet when it was thrown into them. Here, too, he gave them laws and decrees to live by,✻ and issued this challenge to them: (Exodus 15, 25)
If thou wilt listen to the voice of the Lord thy God, his will doing, his word obeying, and all he bids thee observe, observing faithfully, never shall they fall on thee, the many woes brought on Egypt; I am the Lord, and it is health I bring thee. (Exodus 15, 26)
It would have been better, they told them, if the Lord had struck us dead in the land of Egypt, where we sat down to bowls of meat, and had more bread than we needed to content us. Was it well done to bring us out into this desert, and starve our whole company to death? (Exodus 16, 3)
But the Lord said to Moses, I mean to rain down bread upon you from heaven. It will be for the people to go out and gather enough for their needs day by day; and so I shall have a test, whether they are ready to follow my orders or not. (Exodus 16, 4)
Only when the sixth day comes must they lay in a store twice as large as they gathered on any of the others. (Exodus 16, 5)
So Moses and Aaron told all the people of Israel, This night shall bring proof it was the Lord that rescued you from Egypt, (Exodus 16, 6)
and to-morrow you shall witness his glory. He has heard your complaints against himself—not against us, we are nothing. (Exodus 16, 7)
The Lord (said Moses) means to give you meat for your food this evening, and bread tomorrow to your heart’s content. Not unheard, the complaints you have brought against him; we count for nothing, it is the Lord’s dealings you complain of, not ours. (Exodus 16, 8)
