Exodus 16
1AND the whole congregation of the children of Israel removed from Aileim and came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Aileim and Sina. And on the fifteenth day of the second month after their coming out of Egypt
2all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron.
3The Israelites indeed said to them, Oh that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of flesh meat and ate bread in plenty! For you have brought us to this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
4Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, Behold I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go and gather it day by day, that I may try them whether they will walk in My law or not.
5But on the sixth day they must be provident in respect to what they bring in. It shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
6Then Moses and Aaron said to all the congregation of the Israelites: In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you out of the land of Egypt,
7and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, by His hearkening to your murmurings against God. As for us, what are we that you should murmur against us?
8Now Moses had said: By the Lord’s giving you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread in plenty, because the Lord hath heard your murmurings which you utter against us. But as for us what are we? your murmuring is not against us but against God.
9Then Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Attend in the presence of God, for he hath heard your murmuring.
10And when Aaron had spoken to all the congregation of the Israelites and they had turned about towards the wilderness, the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud,
11and the Lord spoke to Moses saying,
12I have heard the murmuring of the Israelites. Speak to them and say, Towards evening you shall eat flesh and in the morning you shall be plentifully supplied with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord, your God.
13Accordingly there came up in the evening a flock of quails, which covered the camp,
14and in the morning while the dew lay around the camp, behold on the face of the wilderness something small like coriander, white like hoarfrost, on the ground!
15And when the Israelites saw this they said one to another, What is this? for they did not know what it was. Upon which Moses said to them. This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
16This is what the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it, everyone for his family a gomer a head according to the number of souls, you must everyone gather for those in the tent with you.
17And the children of Israel did so and gathered some more and some less,
18and when they measured it by the gomer, he who had gathered much had nothing over, and he who had gathered little did not fall short. Everyone had gathered sufficient for the family with him.
19Then Moses said to them, Let none leave any of it till the morning.
20Notwithstanding this they hearkened not to Moses, but some left of it till the morning. And it bred worms and gave an offensive smell. On which Moses was angry with them.
21So they gathered it every morning, every one a sufficiency for his family.
22And when the sun grew warm, it melted away.
23Now on the sixth day when they were gathering a double quantity, two gomers for everyone, all the heads of the congregation came and told Moses, whereupon he said to them, Is not this what the Lord spoke, Sabbaths are a rest holy to the Lord? As for to-morrow, bake what you choose to bake and boil what you choose to boil and what is left lay up for to-morrow.
24So they left some of it till the morning as Moses commanded them and it did not become putrid, nor was there a worm in it.
25Then Moses said to them, Eat it to-day, for to-day is the Sabbath to the Lord. It will not be found in the field.
26Six days you shall gather but because the Sabbaths are on the seventh day, therefore in it there will be none.
27And it came to pass that on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but found none.
28Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse to hearken to My commandments and My law?
29You see that because the Lord gave you this day for sabbaths, therefore on the sixth day He gave you the bread of two days. Abide ye everyone at home. Let none go out from his place on the seventh day.
30So the people rested on the seventh day.
31Now the Israelites called its name Manna. It was like coriander seed. It was white; and its taste was like a cake made with honey.
32And Moses said, This is what the Lord hath commanded, Fill the gomer with Manna to be laid up for your posterity, that they may see the bread which you ate in the wilderness, when the Lord brought you out of the land of Egypt.
33Then Moses said to Aaron, Take a golden urn and put therein the full of a gomer of Manna; and thou shalt lay it up before God to be kept for your posterity.
34As the Lord commanded Moses so Aaron laid it up before the testimony that it might be kept.
35And the children of Israel ate this Manna forty years till they came to the inhabited land. They ate it till they came to the border of Phoenicia. Now the gomer is one tenth of the trimeter.