Exodus 16
Revised Geneva Translation
16 Afterward, all the Congregation of the children of Israel departed from Elim, and came to the wilderness of Sin, (which is between Elim and Sinai) on the fifteenth day of the second month, after their departure from the land of Egypt.
2 And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron, in the wilderness.
3 For the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate bread, our bellies full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole company with famine.”
4 Then, the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will cause bread to rain from Heaven to you. And the people shall go out and gather that which is sufficient for each day, so that I may test them (whether they will walk in My law or not).
5 “But, on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they shall bring home; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”
6 Then, Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that the LORD brought you out of the land of Egypt.
7 “And in the morning, you shall see the Glory of the LORD. For He has heard your complaints against the LORD. And what are we, that you have murmured against us?”
8 Again, Moses said, “At evening, the LORD shall give you meat to eat, and in the morning your fill of bread. For the LORD has heard your murmurings which you murmur against Him. For what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.”
9 And Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the Congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Draw near before the LORD. For He has heard your murmurings.’”
10 Now, as Aaron spoke to the whole Congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness. And behold, the Glory of the LORD appeared in a cloud.
11 (For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying,
12 “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Therefore, tell them and say, ‘At evening you shall eat meat; and in the morning you shall be filled with bread.’ And you shall know that I am the LORD your God).
13 And so, at evening, the quails came and covered the camp. And in the morning, the dew lay all around the camp.
14 And when the dew that had fallen had lifted, behold, a small round flakey thing was upon the face of the wilderness, small as the frost upon the earth.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.
16 “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded: Every man gather from it according to his need (an omer per man, according to the number of your people). Every man shall take for those who are in his tent.”
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they measured it with an omer, he who had gathered much, had nothing left over. And he who had gathered little, had no lack. So, every man gathered according to his eating.
19 Then Moses said to them, “Let no man save it until morning.”
20 Nevertheless, they did not obey Moses. But some of them saved it until morning. And it was full of worms and stank. Therefore, Moses was angry with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating. For when the heat of the Sun came, it melted.
22 And on the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread (two omers per man). Then, all the rulers of the Congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he answered them, “This is that which the LORD has said, ‘Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake that which you will bake today, and boil that which you will boil; and lay up all that remains, to be kept for yourself until morning.’”
24 And they laid it up until the morning, as Moses instructed. And it did not stink, nor was there any worm in it.
25 Then Moses said, “Eat that today. For today is the Sabbath to the LORD. Today, you shall not find it in the field.
26 “Six days you shall gather it; but the seventh day is the Sabbath. On it, there shall be none.”
27 Nevertheless, some of the people went out to gather on the seventh day; and they found none.
28 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My Commandments, and My Laws?
29 “Behold, how the LORD has given you the Sabbath. Therefore, on the sixth day, He gives you bread for two days. Therefore, every man should remain in his place. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”
30 So, the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the House of Israel called the name of it “manna”. And it was like white coriander seed. And the taste of it was like wafers with honey.
32 And Moses said, “This is that which the LORD had commanded, ‘Fill an omer of it to keep for your posterity; so that they may see the bread with which I have fed you in wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
33 Moses also said to Aaron, “Take a pot and put an omer-full of manna in it; and set it before the LORD, to be kept for your posterity.”
34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 (An omer is one tenth of an ephah).
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