16Exodus 16

1They took their journey 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 their departing out of the land of Egypt.Select Exodus 16:1

2The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;Select Exodus 16:2

3and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”Select Exodus 16:3

4Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.Select Exodus 16:4

5It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”Select Exodus 16:5

6Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;Select Exodus 16:6

7and in the morning, then you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”Select Exodus 16:7

8Moses said, “Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”Select Exodus 16:8

9Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.’”Select Exodus 16:9

10As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, Yahweh’s glory appeared in the cloud.Select Exodus 16:10

11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,Select Exodus 16:11

12“I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.’”Select Exodus 16:12

13In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.Select Exodus 16:13

14When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.Select Exodus 16:14

15When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.”Select Exodus 16:15

16This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: “Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.”Select Exodus 16:16

17The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.Select Exodus 16:17

18When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.Select Exodus 16:18

19Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.”Select Exodus 16:19

20Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.Select Exodus 16:20

21They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.Select Exodus 16:21

22On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.Select Exodus 16:22

23He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”Select Exodus 16:23

24They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn’t become foul, neither was there any worm in it.Select Exodus 16:24

25Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.Select Exodus 16:25

26Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.”Select Exodus 16:26

27On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.Select Exodus 16:27

28Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?Select Exodus 16:28

29Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”Select Exodus 16:29

30So the people rested on the seventh day.Select Exodus 16:30

31The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.Select Exodus 16:31

32Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”Select Exodus 16:32

33Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.”Select Exodus 16:33

34As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.Select Exodus 16:34

35The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.Select Exodus 16:35

36Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.Select Exodus 16:36