Exodus 16

¹And they journeyed 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 they departed from the land of Egypt.

²Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

³And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lord

⁴Then the Lord

⁵And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”

⁶Then Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening you shall know that the Lord

⁷And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord

⁸Also Moses said, “This shall be seen when the Lord

⁹Then Moses spoke to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before the Lord

¹⁰Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord

¹¹And the Lord

¹²“I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord

¹³So it was that quail came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay all around the camp.

¹⁴And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground.

¹⁵So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the Lord

¹⁶This is the thing which the Lord

¹⁷Then the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less.

¹⁸So when they measured it by omers, he who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack. Every man had gathered according to each one’s need.

¹⁹And Moses said, “Let no one leave any of it till morning.”

²⁰Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.

²¹So they gathered it every morning, every man according to his need. And when the sun became hot, it melted.

²²And so it was, on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

²³Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord

²⁴So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.

²⁵Then Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord

²⁶Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”

²⁷Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none.

²⁸And the Lord

²⁹See! For the Lord

³⁰So the people rested on the seventh day.

³¹And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

³²Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord

³³And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord

³⁴As the Lord

³⁵And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

³⁶Now an omer is one-tenth of an ephah.