¹³That evening quails came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. ¹⁴When the dew was gone, the ground was covered with a thin layer of flakes like frost on the ground. ¹⁵When the Israelites saw it, they asked each other, “What is this?” because they didn’t know what it was.

Moses said to them, “It’s the food the Lord has given you to eat. ¹⁶This is what the Lord has commanded: Each of you should gather as much as you can eat. Take two quarts for each person in your tent.”

¹⁷So that is what the Israelites did. Some gathered more, some less. ¹⁸They measured it into two-quart containers. Those who had gathered more didn’t have too much. Those who had gathered less didn’t have too little. They gathered as much as they could eat.

¹⁹Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.”

²⁰But some of them didn’t listen to Moses. They kept part of it until morning, and it was full of worms and smelled bad. So Moses was angry with them.

²¹Each morning they gathered as much food as they could eat. When the sun was hot, it melted away. ²²But on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts per person. All the leaders of the community came to Moses and told him about it.

²³He said to them, “This is what the Lord said: Tomorrow is a day of rest—a holy day dedicated to the Lord. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Save all that’s left over, and keep it until tomorrow morning.”

²⁴So they saved it until the next morning as Moses had commanded, but it didn’t smell or have worms in it. ²⁵“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a day of rest—a holy day dedicated to the Lord. You won’t find anything on the ground today. ²⁶You can gather food on six days, but on the seventh day, the day of rest, you won’t find any.”

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