Exodus 16
EX 16:1 And they journey from Elim, and all the company of the sons of Israel
come in unto the wilderness of Sin, which `is' between Elim and Sinai, on the
fifteenth day of the second month of their going out from the land of Egypt.
EX 16:2 And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and
against Aaron in the wilderness;
EX 16:3 and the sons of Israel say unto them, `Oh that we had died by the hand
of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating
bread to satiety -- for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all
this assembly to death with hunger.'
EX 16:4 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, I am raining to you bread from the
heavens -- and the people have gone out and gathered the matter of a day in its
day -- so that I try them whether they walk in My law, or not;
EX 16:5 and it hath been on the sixth day, that they have prepared that which
they bring in, and it hath been double above that which they gather day `by'
day.'
EX 16:6 And Moses saith -- Aaron also -- unto all the sons of Israel, `Evening
-- and ye have known that Jehovah hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;
EX 16:7 and morning -- and ye have seen the honour of Jehovah, in His hearing
your murmurings against Jehovah, and what `are' we, that ye murmur against us?'
EX 16:8 And Moses saith, `In Jehovah's giving to you in the evening flesh to
eat, and bread in the morning to satiety -- in Jehovah's hearing your
murmurings, which ye are murmuring against Him, and what `are' we? your
murmurings `are' not against us, but against Jehovah.'
EX 16:9 And Moses saith unto Aaron, `Say unto all the company of the sons of
Israel, Come ye near before Jehovah, for He hath heard your murmurings;'
EX 16:10 and it cometh to pass, when Aaron is speaking unto all the company of
the sons of Israel, that they turn towards the wilderness, and lo, the honour of
Jehovah is seen in the cloud.
EX 16:11 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
EX 16:12 `I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel; speak unto them,
saying, Between the evenings ye eat flesh, and in the morning ye are satisfied
`with' bread, and ye have known that I `am' Jehovah your God.'
EX 16:13 And it cometh to pass in the evening, that the quail cometh up, and
covereth the camp, and in the morning there hath been the lying of dew round
about the camp,
EX 16:14 and the lying of the dew goeth up, and lo, on the face of the
wilderness a thin, bare thing, thin as hoar-frost on the earth.
EX 16:15 And the sons of Israel see, and say one unto another, `What `is' it?'
for they have not known what it `is'; and Moses saith unto them, `It `is' the
bread which Jehovah hath given to you for food.
EX 16:16 `This `is' the thing which Jehovah hath commanded: Gather of it each
according to his eating, an omer for a poll; and the number of your persons,
take ye each for those in his tent.'
EX 16:17 And the sons of Israel do so, and they gather, he who is `gathering'
much, and he who is `gathering' little;
EX 16:18 and they measure with an omer, and he who is `gathering' much hath
nothing over, and he who is `gathering' little hath no lack, each according to
his eating they have gathered.
EX 16:19 And Moses saith unto them, `Let no man leave of it till morning;'
EX 16:20 and they have not hearkened unto Moses, and some of them do leave of it
till morning, and it bringeth up worms and stinketh; and Moses is wroth with
them.
EX 16:21 And they gather it morning by morning, each according to his eating;
when the sun hath been warm, then it hath melted.
EX 16:22 And it cometh to pass on the sixth day, they have gathered a second
bread, two omers for one, and all the princes of the company come in, and
declare to Moses.
EX 16:23 And he saith unto them, `It `is' that which Jehovah hath spoken `of'; a
rest -- a holy sabbath to Jehovah -- `is' to-morrow; that which ye bake, bake;
and that which ye boil, boil; and all that is over, let rest for yourselves in
charge till the morning.'
EX 16:24 And they let it rest until the morning, as Moses hath commanded, and it
hath not stank, and a worm hath not been in it.
EX 16:25 And Moses saith, `Eat it to-day, for to-day `is' a sabbath to Jehovah;
to-day ye find it not in the field:
EX 16:26 six days ye do gather it, and in the seventh day -- the sabbath -- in
it there is none.'
EX 16:27 And it cometh to pass on the seventh day, some of the people have gone
out to gather, and have not found.
EX 16:28 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `How long have ye refused to keep My
commands, and My laws?
EX 16:29 see, because Jehovah hath given to you the sabbath, therefore He is
giving to you on the sixth day bread of two days; abide ye each `in' his place,
no one doth go out from his place on the seventh day.'
EX 16:30 And the people rest on the seventh day,
EX 16:31 and the house of Israel call its name Manna, and it `is' as coriander
seed, white; and its taste `is' as a cake with honey.
EX 16:32 And Moses saith, `This `is' the thing which Jehovah hath commanded:
Fill the omer with it, for a charge for your generations, so that they see the
bread which I have caused you to eat in the wilderness, in My bringing you out
from the land of Egypt.'
EX 16:33 And Moses saith unto Aaron, `Take one pot, and put there the fulness of
the omer of manna, and let it rest before Jehovah, for a charge for your
generations;'
EX 16:34 as Jehovah hath given commandment unto Moses, so doth Aaron let it rest
before the Testimony, for a charge.
EX 16:35 And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna forty years, until their
coming in unto the land to be inhabited; the manna they have eaten till their
coming in unto the extremity of the land of Canaan.
EX 16:36 and the omer is a tenth of the ephah.
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