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Exodus 16:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Moses and Aaron told the people, “This evening you will know that the LORD was the one who rescued you from Egypt.

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You guided your people like a flock of sheep, and you chose Moses and Aaron to be their leaders.

“But, my people, Israel, you refused to listen, and you would have nothing to do with me!

And on that same day the LORD brought Israel's families and tribes out of Egypt.

“We wish the LORD had killed us in Egypt. When we lived there, we could at least sit down and eat all the bread and meat we wanted. But you have brought us out here into this desert, where we are going to starve.”

Then Moses continued, “You will know it is the LORD when he gives you meat each evening and more than enough bread each morning. He is really the one you are complaining about, not us—we are nobodies—but the LORD has heard your complaints.”

After the people saw that Moses had been on the mountain for a long time, they went to Aaron and said, “Make us an image of a god who will lead and protect us. Moses brought us out of Egypt, but nobody knows what has happened to him.”

Moses tried to get the LORD God to change his mind: Our LORD, you used your mighty power to bring these people out of Egypt. Now don't become angry and destroy them.

The LORD said to Moses: Hurry back down! Those people you led out of Egypt are acting like fools.

Here is my message for Israel: “I am the LORD! And with my mighty power I will punish the Egyptians and free you from slavery.

I will accept you as my people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I was the one who rescued you from the Egyptians.

Moses said to the crowd, “The LORD has chosen me and told me to do these things—it wasn't my idea. And here's how you will know:

But suppose the LORD does something that has never been done before. For example, what if a huge crack appears in the ground, and these men and their families fall into it and are buried alive, together with everything they own? Then you will know they have turned their backs on the LORD!”




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