Exodus 17:1-7 Commentary
At Rephidim, there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink."
At Rephidim, there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink."
Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates."
Abram believed Yahweh, and Yahweh reckoned it to Abram as righteousness.
Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not."
So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation.
The whole earth was of one language. They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, "I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."
Noah was a righteous man. God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make a ship of gopher wood."
Yahweh sent fiery serpents, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died. The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.