Exodus 16
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1 And they took their
journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came
unto 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.
2 And the whole congregation of the
children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
3 And the children of Israel said
unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of
Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to
the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this
whole assembly with hunger.
4 Then said the LORD unto Moses,
Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out
and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they
will walk in my law, or no.
5 And it shall come to pass, that on
the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it
shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all
the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath
brought you out from the land of Egypt:
7 And in the morning, then ye shall
see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the
LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
8 And Moses said, This shall be,
when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the
morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which
ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are
not against us, but against the LORD.
9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say
unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the
LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.
10 And it came to pass, as Aaron
spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they
looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared
in the cloud.
11 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying,
12 I have heard the murmurings of
the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat
flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know
that I am the LORD your God.
13 And it came to pass,
that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning
the dew lay round about the host.
14 And when the dew that lay was
gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small
round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
15 And when the children of Israel
saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist
not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread
which the LORD hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which
the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating,
an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons;
take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
17 And the children of Israel did
so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete it
with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered
little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave
of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened
not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred
worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered it every
morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it
melted.
22 And it came to pass,
that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers
for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told
Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This is
that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the
holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day,
and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for
you to be kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the
morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm
therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day;
for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it
in the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it; but
on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be
none.
27 And it came to pass, that
there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather,
and they found none.
28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How
long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
29 See, for that the LORD hath given
you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two
days; abide ye every man 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 thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and
the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
32 And Moses said, This is
the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for
your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in
the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a
pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD,
to be kept for your generations.
34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so
Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
35 And the children of Israel did
eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat
manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
36 Now an omer is the tenth part
of an ephah.
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