Moses and the Burning Bush

3 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,^[a] the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb,^[b] the mountain of God.^(A)

⁶ I am going to stand there in front of you on the rock at Horeb; when you hit the rock, water^(A) will come out of it and the people will drink.” Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

⁶ So the Israelites remained stripped of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

² It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb^(A) to Kadesh-barnea^(B) by way of Mount Seir.^(C)

Departure from Horeb

⁶ “The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb: ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

Israel’s Disobedience at Kadesh-barnea

¹⁹ “We then set out from Horeb and went across all the great and terrible wilderness you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the Lord our God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

¹⁰ The day you stood before the Lord your God^(A) at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people before me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me^(B) all the days they live on the earth and may instruct their children.’

Worshiping the True God

¹⁵ “Diligently watch yourselves—because you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb—

² The Lord our God made a covenant^(A) with us at Horeb.

¹⁶ This is what you requested from the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the Lord our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die!’ ^(A)