Exodus 16:12–36

¹²I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, say to them: In the evening you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God.

¹³So it came to pass in the evening, that quails coming up, covered the camp: and in the morning a dew lay round about the camp.

¹⁴And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.

¹⁵And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: Manhu! which signifieth: What is this! for they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them: This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

¹⁶This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: Let every one gather of it as much as is enough to eat; a gomor for every man, according to the number of your souls that dwell in a tent, so shall you take of it.

¹⁷And the children of Israel did so: and they gathered, one more, another less.

¹⁸And they measured by the measure of a gomor: neither had he more that had gathered more; nor did he find less that had provided less: but every one had gathered, according to what they were able to eat.

¹⁹And Moses said to them: Let no man leave thereof till the morning.

²⁰And they hearkened not to him, but some of them left until the morning, and it began to be full of worms, and it putrefied, and Moses was angry with them.

²¹Now every one of them gathered in the morning, as much as might suffice to eat: and after the sun grew hot, it melted.

²²But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much, that is, two gomors every man: and all the rulers of the multitude came, and told Moses.

²³And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it; and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them; and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.

²⁴And they did so as Moses had commanded, and it did not putrefy, neither was there worm found in it.

²⁵And Moses said: Eat it to day, because it is the sabbath of the Lord: to day it shall not be found in the field.

²⁶Gather it six days; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.

²⁷And the seventh day came; and some of the people going forth to gather, found none.

²⁸And the Lord said to Moses: How long will you refuse to keep my commandments, and my law?

²⁹See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.

³⁰And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.

³¹And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof like to flour with honey.

³²And Moses said: This is the word which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a gomor of it, and let it be kept unto generations to come hereafter; that they may know the bread, wherewith I fed you in the wilderness when you were brought forth out of the land of Egypt.

³³And Moses said to Aaron: Take a vessel, and put manna into it, as much as a gomor can hold; and lay it up before the Lord, to keep unto your generations,

³⁴As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept.

³⁵And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.

³⁶Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.