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14 When the layer of dew lifted, there on the desert surface were thin flakes, as thin as frost on the ground. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What[a] is it?” They didn’t know what it was.

Moses said to them, “This is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Collect as much of it as each of you can eat, one omer[b] per person. You may collect for the number of people in your household.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:15 Heb man (= What?); cf Exod 16:31
  2. Exodus 16:16 Two quarts

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