²And all the community of the Israelites^c grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the desert. ³And the Israelites^d said to them, “If only we had died^e by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots^f of meat, when we ate bread until we were full,^g because you have brought us out to this desert to kill all of this assembly with hunger.” ⁴And Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, I am going to rain down for you bread from the heavens, and the people will go out and gather enough for the day on its day; in that way I will test them: Will they go according to my law or not? ⁵And then on the sixth day, they will prepare what they bring, and it will be twice over what they will gather every other day.”

⁶And Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites,^h “In the evening, you will know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt, ⁷and in the morning, you will see the glory of Yahweh, for he hearsⁱ your grumblings against Yahweh, and what are we that you grumble against us?” ⁸And Moses said, “When in the evening Yahweh gives you meat to eat and bread in the morning to fill up on,^j for he hears^k your grumblings that you grumble against him—and what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against Yahweh.” ⁹And Moses said to Aaron, “Say to all the community of the Israelites,^l ‘Come near before Yahweh because he has heard your grumblings.’ ”

¹⁰And at the moment of Aaron’s speaking to all the community of the Israelites,^m they turned to the desert, and just thenⁿ the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud. ¹¹And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹²“I have heard the grumblings of the Israelites.^o Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight^p you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be full with bread, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

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.

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Footnotes

cLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
dLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
eLiterally “who will give our dying”
fHebrew “pot”
gLiterally “to contentment” or “to satisfaction”
hLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
iLiterally “at/in his hearing”
jLiterally “to be satisfied”
kLiterally “at/in his hearing”
lLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
mLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
nLiterally “look” or “behold”
oLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
pLiterally “between the evenings”
qLiterally “look” or “behold”
rLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
sLiterally “a man to his brother”