396 A SHORT VIEW OF 3CRIPTIIRE HISTORY. lug to the rest or motionof this cloud; Exod. xiii. 21 ; Num. r. 33, 34, 22. Q. Ilow did the people.of Israel, who had seen all these wonders, behave themselves in their travels ? A. At every new difficulty, when they wanted meat or water, or met with enemies, they fell a murmuring against God and Moses ; Exod. xv. 23, 24. and xvi. 2, 3. 23. Q. flow long was it before they came to the place that God promised them ? A. They wandered forty years in the wilderness for their sins; Nlun. xiv. 32, 33. See Ps. lxxviii. 13-55. 24. Q. What did they eat all the time ? A. God fed them with manna, or bread that carne down every night from heaven, and lay all round the camp ; Ex. xvi. 4, 25, 35. Deut. viii. 3. 25. Q. What did theydrink in the wilderness ? A. Moses smote the rock with his rod, and waters gushed out in a river which attended them in their journies ;. Ex. xvii. 5, 6. 1 Cor. x. 4. Num. xv. 11. Nehem. ix. 15. 26. Q. What did they do for clothes during these forty years ? A. Their raiment waxed not old, nor did their shoes wear out; Dent. xxix. 5. 27. Q. Did Moses govern all this people himself ? A. By his father-In-law Jethro's advice, and by God's approbation, he appointed officers and judges over the people for common cases, but every harder cause was brought to Moses ; Ex. xviii. 9-23. 28. Q. You told me that Moses was a lawgiver to the Jews or people of Israel, pray how came he by those wise and holy laws which he gave them ? A. He .conversed with God four- score days and nights in mount Sinai, and there he learned them ; Ex. xxiv. 12- -18. Deut. iv. 9, 18. Note, The people of Israel were not all called .Jews until after the return from the captivity of Babylon, the chief part of those who returned being of the tribe of Judah : Yet in all later histories the Israelites are so universally called Jews, that I have sometimes used this name even in the earlier part of their his- tory. It is plain that Moses was twice with God on mount Sinai, and that forty days each time ; for Moses coming down, and finding the idolatry of the golden calf, broke the tables of the law which God wrote first, and God called him up the second time, and wrote the law on new tables ; See Ex. xxxiv. 1 -5, 28. 29. Q. What token was there that Moses had been with God ? A. The faze of Moses shone so that the people could not converse with him till he put a veil on his face; Ex. xxxiv. 29-35. 30. Q. What sort of laws were those which Moses gave the Jews ? A. Moral laws, ceremonial laws, and judicial laws, and all by God's own appointment ; Ex. xxiv. 12. Is. xxxiii. " .
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