Exodus 16
16:1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children
of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the
fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of
Egypt.
16:2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
against Aaron in the wilderness;
16:3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the
hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate
our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill
this whole assembly with hunger."
16:4 Then said Yahweh 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.
16:5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which
they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."
16:6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you
shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;
16:7 and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he
hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"
16:8 Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in
the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you
murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but
against Yahweh."
16:9 Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel,
'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'"
16:10 It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of
Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Yahweh
appeared in the cloud.
16:11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
16:12 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them,
saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled
with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"
16:13 It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the
morning the dew lay around the camp.
16:14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness
was a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground.
16:15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is
it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread
which Yahweh has given you to eat."
16:16 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone
according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your
persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent."
16:17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.
16:18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over,
and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his
eating.
16:19 Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."
16:20 Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it
until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with
them.
16:21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating.
When the sun grew hot, it melted.
16:22 It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two
omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
16:23 He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a
solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and
boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for
yourselves to be kept until the morning."
16:24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become
foul, neither was there any worm in it.
16:25 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you
shall not find it in the field.
16:26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it
there shall be none."
16:27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to
gather, and they found none.
16:28 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and
my laws?
16:29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you
on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one
go out of his place on the seventh day."
16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
16:31 The house of Israel called the name of it Manna,{"Mana" means "What is
it?"} and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with
honey.
16:32 Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an
omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread
with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land
of Egypt."
16:33 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and
lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."
16:34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be
kept.
16:35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an
inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of
Canaan.
16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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