Elijah went before the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal is God, follow him.   . . . Get two bulls for us. Let Baal's prophets choose one for themselves . . .  I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The god w...  Read More

The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai . . .  In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire ass...  Read More

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.) . . . Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to...  Read More

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD:"I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. Both horse and driver He has hurled into the sea."The LORD is my strength and my defense; He has become my salvation." He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father's God, and I will exalt Him.The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is His name. Pharaoh's chariots and his army He has hurled into t...  Read More

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea . . . The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.  The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.   . . . Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow bac...  Read More

"After the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as He promised . . . you are to give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. . . . In days to come, when your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' say to him, 'With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed the f...  Read More