¹³And so it was, in the evening, the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning, a layer of dew was all around the camp. ¹⁴And the layer of dew came up, and there^q on the face of the desert was a fine granular substance, fine like frost on the ground. ¹⁵And the Israelites^r saw, and they said to each other,^s “What is this?” because they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “That is the bread that Yahweh has given to you as food. ¹⁶This is the word that Yahweh commanded, ‘Gather from it, each according to what he can eat,^t an omer per person^u according to the number of you.^v You each shall take enough for whoever is in his tent.’ ”

¹⁷And the Israelites^w did so, and they gathered, some more and some less. ¹⁸And when they measured with the omer, the one gathering more had no surplus, and the one gathering less had no lack; they gathered each according to what he could eat.^x ¹⁹And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it until morning.” ²⁰But they did not listen to Moses. Some people^y left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. ²¹And they gathered it morning by morning, each according to what he could eat,^z and it melted when the sun was hot.^a

²²And when it was the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one person, and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses.

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Footnotes

qLiterally “look” or “behold”
rLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
sLiterally “a man to his brother”
tLiterally “a man for the mouth of his eating”
uLiterally “skull” or “head”
vOr “the number of your selves”
wLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
xLiterally “a man for the mouth of his eating”
yLiterally “men”
zLiterally “a man according to the mouth of his eating”
aLiterally “and the sun was hot, and he/it melted”