16:1 And they 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 departure from the land of
Egypt.
16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
16:3 And the children of Israel said to them, O that 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.
16:4 Then said the LORD to 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 not.
16:5 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.
16:6 And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, At
evening, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out
from the land of Egypt:
16:7 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?
16:8 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.
16:9 And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of
the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath
heard your murmurings.
16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole
congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked
towards the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD
appeared in the cloud.
16:11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
16:12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel;
Speak to them, saying, At evening 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.
16:13 And it came to pass, that at evening the quails came up,
and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay around the
host.
16:14 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:
16:15 And when the children of Israel saw [it], they said one to
another, It [is] manna: for they knew not what it [was]. And
Moses said to them, This [is] the bread which the LORD hath
given you to eat.
16:16 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] who [are] in his tents.
16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some
more, some less.
16:18 And when they measured [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.
16:19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
16:20 Notwithstanding, they hearkened not to Moses; but some of
them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and
became offensive; and Moses was wroth with them.
16:21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to
his eating: and when the sun became hot, it melted.
16:22 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.
16:23 And he said to them, This [is that] which the LORD hath
said, To-morrow [is] the rest of the holy sabbath to the LORD:
bake [that] which ye will bake [to-day], and boil that ye will
boil; and that which remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept
until the morning.
16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses ordered:
and it did not putrefy, neither was there any worm therein.
16:25 And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day [is] a sabbath
to the LORD; to-day ye will not find it in the field.
16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day,
[which is] the sabbath, in it there will be none.
16:27 And it came to pass, [that some] of the people went out on
the seventh day to gather, and they found none.
16:28 And the LORD said to Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my
commandments and my laws?
16:29 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.
16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
16:31 And the house of Israel called its name Manna: and it
[was] like coriander-seed, white; and the taste of it [was]
like wafers [made] with honey.
16:32 And Moses said, This [is] the thing which the LORD
commanded, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations;
that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the
wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
16:33 And Moses said to 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.
16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before
the Testimony, to be kept.
16:35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until
they came to a land inhabited: they ate manna, until they came
to the borders of the land of Canaan.
16:36 Now an omer [is] the tenth [part] of an ephah.
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